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Amateur bureaucrats are often even worse than professional bureaucrats. ↗

— John McCarthy

#bureaucrats #even #even worse #often #professional

An excessive knowledge of Marxism is a sign of a misspent youth. ↗

— John McCarthy

#knowledge #marxism #misspent #sign #youth

An extreme optimist is a man who believes that humanity will probably survive even if it doesn't take his advice. ↗

— John McCarthy

#believes #even #extreme #his #humanity

Both politicians and journalists face situations which strain their honesty and humanity. My opinion is that politicians on the average stand up somewhat better than journalists. ↗

— John McCarthy

#better #both #face #honesty #humanity

Committing genocide on behalf of an institution generates greater loyalty to it than merely getting people fired from their jobs on its behalf. ↗

— John McCarthy

#committing #fired #generates #genocide #getting

Compassion is contempt with a human face. ↗

— John McCarthy

#contempt #face #human #human face

Don't try to talk anyone out of concentrating his hatred on Ayn Rand or any other dead person. It can't harm the dead. Diverted to a living person, it might actually do harm. ↗

— John McCarthy

#any #anyone #ayn #ayn rand #concentrating

Hardly anyone has noticed that in the Northern Hemisphere people stir their drinks counterclockwise, whereas the same people stir their drinks clockwise when visiting the Southern Hemisphere. ↗

— John McCarthy

#drinks #hardly #hemisphere #northern #noticed

He who refuses to do arithmetic is doomed to talk nonsense. ↗

— John McCarthy

#doomed #nonsense #refuses #talk #who

It is said that man doesn't live by bread alone. Sometimes this is unfortunate, because people who cannot live by bread alone too often kill other people in consequence of the fights they get into. ↗

— John McCarthy

#because #bread #cannot #consequence #fights