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" Asking a critic to name his favorite book is like asking a butcher to name his favorite pig. "

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" Suicidal terrorists may have short shelf lives. "

" He who refuses to do arithmetic is doomed to talk nonsense. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

" Language is froth on the surface of thought. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" Committing genocide on behalf of an institution generates greater loyalty to it than merely getting people fired from their jobs on its behalf. "

" 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. "

" Compassion is contempt with a human face. "

" 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. "

" Honor among thieves is the ancestor of all honor. "

" 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. "

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

" If I owned Marseilles and Hell, I'd rent out Marseilles and live in Hell. "

" 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'. "

" In human history, the desire for revenge and the desire for loot have often been closely associated. "

" Self-righteousness has killed more people than smoking. "

" 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 I see a slippery slope, my instinct is to build a terrace. "

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

" 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. "

" A declining institution often experiences survival of the unfittest. "

" Hard distinctions make bad philosophy. "