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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Hard distinctions make bad philosophy.

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.

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

Suicidal terrorists may have short shelf lives.

Never abandon a theory that explains something until you have a theory that explains more.

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

Foolishness is rarely a matter of lack of intelligence or even lack of information.

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.

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

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

Self-righteousness has killed more people than smoking.

An excessive knowledge of Marxism is a sign of a misspent youth.

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

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

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

When thugs by nature meet thugs by political conviction, 5-0 is not surprising.

Amateur bureaucrats are often even worse than professional bureaucrats.

Compassion is contempt with a human face.

A declining institution often experiences survival of the unfittest.

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

Language is froth on the surface of thought.

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

My opinion is that he's a swindler and you're a sucker.

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