"If a person can be said to have the wrong attitude, there is no need to pay attention to his arguments."
-John McCarthy
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"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
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"Foolishness is rarely a matter of lack of intelligence or even lack of information."
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"In human history, the desire for revenge and the desire for loot have often been closely associated."
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"An excessive knowledge of Marxism is a sign of a misspent youth."
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"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."
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"The slogan was 'Don't trust anyone over thirty'. Sixty years later the slogan became, 'Don't trust anyone over ninety'."
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"There would be no society if living together depended upon understanding each other."
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"Our society is run by insane people for insane objectives. I think we're being run by maniacs for maniacal ends and I think I'm liable to be put away as insane for expressing that. That's what's insane about it."
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"Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society and any eminent departure from it, under any circumstances, lies under the suspicion of being no policy at all."
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"Civilized society is perpetually menaced with disintegration through this primary hostility of men towards one another."
-Sigmund Freud
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