Hard distinctions make bad philosophy.
From John McCarthy
If a person can be said to have the wrong attitude, there is no need to pay attention to his arguments.
Honor among thieves is the ancestor of all honor.
Slogans rarely convince the unconvinced. However, they do rally the troops already on your side.
Language is froth on the surface of thought.
Proposals to forbid golf courses have about the same motivations as proposals to forbid skate boarding, although the rationalizations are different.
Once a person has killed other people on behalf of an ideology, he becomes rather devoted to it.
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.
Compassion is contempt with a human face.
In human history, the desire for revenge and the desire for loot have often been closely associated.
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