41+ John McCarthy Quotes On Ai, Artificial Intelligence And Communism

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Top 10 John McCarthy Quotes

  1. A declining institution often experiences survival of the unfittest.
  2. Honor among thieves is the ancestor of all honor.
  3. Committing genocide on behalf of an institution generates greater loyalty to it than merely getting people fired from their jobs on its behalf.
  4. Asking a critic to name his favorite book is like asking a butcher to name his favorite pig.
  5. Compassion is contempt with a human face.
  6. In human history, the desire for revenge and the desire for loot have often been closely associated.
  7. 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.
  8. 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.
  9. Language is froth on the surface of thought.
  10. The slogan was 'Don't trust anyone over thirty'. Sixty years later the slogan became, 'Don't trust anyone over ninety'.

John McCarthy Short Quotes

  • Hard distinctions make bad philosophy.
  • My opinion is that he's a swindler and you're a sucker.
  • If I owned Marseilles and Hell, I'd rent out Marseilles and live in Hell.
  • Foolishness is rarely a matter of lack of intelligence or even lack of information.
  • An excessive knowledge of Marxism is a sign of a misspent youth.
  • Suicidal terrorists may have short shelf lives.
  • Never abandon a theory that explains something until you have a theory that explains more.
  • When thugs by nature meet thugs by political conviction, 5-0 is not surprising.
  • When I see a slippery slope, my instinct is to build a terrace.
  • He who refuses to do arithmetic is doomed to talk nonsense.

John McCarthy Quotes About People

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

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

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

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

John McCarthy Famous Quotes And Sayings

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

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

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

With no more than six levels of misquotation, any statement can be made to say whatever you wish. — John McCarthy

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

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

His ambition is to be the spider in the World Wide Web. — John McCarthy

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. — John McCarthy

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

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

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

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

Amateur bureaucrats are often even worse than professional bureaucrats. — John McCarthy

Alas few socialists are either benevolent enough to work hard at these occupations out of benevolence or self-interested enough to work hard at them for money. — John McCarthy

Life Lessons by John McCarthy

  1. John McCarthy taught us the importance of staying true to our values and beliefs, even in the face of adversity.
  2. He also showed us the power of standing up for what we believe in and using our voices to make a difference.
  3. Finally, he demonstrated the importance of working hard and never giving up, no matter how difficult the task may seem.
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