Quotes By John McCarthy

Honor among thieves is the ancestor of all honor.

A true intellectual is a man who, after reading a book and being convinced by its arguments, will shoot someone or, more likely, order someone shot.

My opinion is that he's a swindler and you're a sucker.

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

The slogan was 'Don't trust anyone over thirty'. Sixty years later the slogan became, 'Don't trust anyone over ninety'.

If a person can be said to have the wrong attitude, there is no need to pay attention to his arguments.

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.

Soccer riots kill at most tens. Intellectuals' ideological riots sometimes kill millions.

Self-righteousness has killed more people than smoking.

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

When thugs by nature meet thugs by political conviction, 5-0 is not surprising.