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Once a person has killed other people on behalf of an ideology, he becomes rather devoted to it. ↗

— John McCarthy

#behalf #devoted #ideology #killed #once

There are two different types of leader. A person can either be like a thermometer or a thermostat. A thermometer will tell you what the temperature is. A thermostat will not only tell you what the temperature is, but it'll move you to the temperature you need to get to. ↗

— Kevin McCarthy

#different types #either #get #leader #like

Our government has failed us. From the billion-dollar bailouts to the 'stimulus' package that failed to stimulate to the government takeover of health care, you cried 'Stop!'... but the Democratic Majority in Washington has refused to listen. ↗

— Kevin McCarthy

#care #cried #democratic #failed #government

Europe is the unfinished negative of which America is the proof. ↗

— Mary McCarthy

#europe #negative #proof #unfinished #which

Every age has a keyhole to which its eye is pasted. ↗

— Mary McCarthy

#every #eye #keyhole #pasted #which

I suppose everyone continues to be interested in the quest for the self, but what you feel when you're older, I think, is that you really must make the self. ↗

— Mary McCarthy

#everyone #feel #i #i think #interested

I'm afraid I'm not sufficiently inhibited about the things that other women are inhibited about for me. They feel that you've given away trade secrets. ↗

— Mary McCarthy

#afraid #away #feel #given #i

In politics, it seems, retreat is honorable if dictated by military considerations and shameful if even suggested for ethical reasons. ↗

— Mary McCarthy

#dictated #ethical #even #honorable #military

Labor is work that leaves no trace behind it when it is finished, or if it does, as in the case of the tilled field, this product of human activity requires still more labor, incessant, tireless labor, to maintain its identity as a "work" of man. ↗

— Mary McCarthy

#behind #case #does #field #finished

Liberty, as it is conceived by current opinion, has nothing inherent about it; it is a sort of gift or trust bestowed on the individual by the state pending good behavior. ↗

— Mary McCarthy

#behavior #bestowed #conceived #current #gift