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Honor among thieves is the ancestor of all honor.
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'.
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.
Self-righteousness has killed more people than smoking.
A declining institution often experiences survival of the unfittest.
Language is froth on the surface of thought.
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.
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.
When thugs by nature meet thugs by political conviction, 5-0 is not surprising.
My hobby of not attending meetings about recycling saves more energy than your hobby of recycling.
When I see a slippery slope, my instinct is to build a terrace.
In human history, the desire for revenge and the desire for loot have often been closely associated.
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.
Committing genocide on behalf of an institution generates greater loyalty to it than merely getting people fired from their jobs on its behalf.
Compassion is contempt with a human face.
Foolishness is rarely a matter of lack of intelligence or even lack of information.
Once a person has killed other people on behalf of an ideology, he becomes rather devoted to it.
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.
The slogan was 'Don't trust anyone over thirty'. Sixty years later the slogan became, 'Don't trust anyone over ninety'.
He who refuses to do arithmetic is doomed to talk nonsense.
His ambition is to be the spider in the World Wide Web.
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.
An atheist doesn't have to be someone who thinks he has a proof that there can't be a god. He only has to be someone who believes that the evidence on the God question is at a similar level to the evidence on the werewolf question.
Inside of many liberals is a fascist struggling to get out.
All travel is, after all, a journey in time & in mind.... physical landscapes are a mirror of, or perhaps a key into, our inner landscape.
Slogans rarely convince the unconvinced. However, they do rally the troops already on your side.
Suicidal terrorists may have short shelf lives.
An extreme optimist is a man who believes that humanity will probably survive even if it doesn't take his advice.