Inside of many liberals is a fascist struggling to get out.
John McCarthy

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

Language is froth on the surface of thought.
John McCarthy

My hobby of not attending meetings about recycling saves more energy than your hobby of recycling.
John McCarthy

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

Never abandon a theory that explains something until you have a theory that explains more.
John McCarthy

Of course, Third World leaders love you. By ascribing third world ills to First World sins, you absolve them of blame for their countries' failure to advance.
John McCarthy

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

Proposals to forbid golf courses have about the same motivations as proposals to forbid skate boarding, although the rationalizations are different.
John McCarthy

Self-righteousness has killed more people than smoking.
John McCarthy

Slogans rarely convince the unconvinced. However, they do rally the troops already on your side.
John McCarthy

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

Suicidal terrorists may have short shelf lives.
John McCarthy

The difference between a contemporary liberal and a socialist is that to a liberal the most beautiful word in the English language is 'forbidden', whereas to a socialist the most beautiful word is 'compulsory'.
John McCarthy

The peace movement is a great force for peace. Some of the world's most quarrelsome people act out their aggressions through the peace movement.
John McCarthy

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

There is only one thing more harmful to society than an elected official forgetting the promises he made in order to get elected; that's when he doesn't forget them.
John McCarthy

We modern Marxists regard socialism as a historically brief transitional stage between feudalism and capitalism, necessary only in backward countries.
John McCarthy

When I see a slippery slope, my instinct is to build a terrace.
John McCarthy

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