Altruism and Cynicism
173 aphorisms · 15 comments
Aphorisms in This Category
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tiny.ag/jcmyu3ji · ★★☆☆ Fair (152 ratings) · submitted 1997
Demagogue: One who preaches a doctrine he knows to be untrue to men he knows to be idiots.
tiny.ag/7gz85bqy · ★★☆☆ Fair (179 ratings) · submitted 1997
The cynics are right nine times out of ten.
tiny.ag/b4tuds1y · ★★☆☆ Fair (192 ratings) · submitted 1997
There's always an easy solution to every human problem -- neat, plausible, and wrong.
Henry Louis Mencken, in Altruism and Cynicism and Science and Religion
tiny.ag/xhg05ovb · ★★☆☆ Fair (68 ratings) · submitted 1997
I never know how much of what I say is true.
tiny.ag/qr9ysjed · ★★☆☆ Fair (328 ratings) · submitted 1997
Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.
tiny.ag/bx0vlces · ★★☆☆ Fair (323 ratings) · submitted 1997
Man usually avoids attributing cleverness to somebody else -- unless it is an enemy.
Albert Einstein, in Altruism and Cynicism and Success and Failure
tiny.ag/l9caw6tv · ★★☆☆ Fair (124 ratings) · submitted 1997
A prig is a fellow who is always making you a present of his opinions.
tiny.ag/r3gvjlqa · ★★☆☆ Fair (192 ratings) · submitted 1997
Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
tiny.ag/hwvmnmsf · ★★☆☆ Fair (257 ratings) · submitted 1997
I'd never join a club that would allow a person like me to become a member.
tiny.ag/bn17or2l · ★★☆☆ Fair (268 ratings) · submitted 1997
I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it.
tiny.ag/dochckvh · ★★☆☆ Fair (862 ratings) · submitted 1997
By means of shrewd lies, unremittingly repeated, it is possible to make people believe that heaven is hell -- and hell heaven. The greater the lie, the more readily it will be believed.
Adolf Hitler, Mein Kampf, in Altruism and Cynicism
tiny.ag/znd6chuu · ★★☆☆ Fair (309 ratings) · submitted 1997
I use emotion for the many and reserve reason for the few.
tiny.ag/0iltdhzx · ★★☆☆ Fair (341 ratings) · submitted 1997
The victor will never be asked if he told the truth.
tiny.ag/q5s2gnzy · ★★☆☆ Fair (76 ratings) · submitted 1997
Television has proved that people will look at anything rather than each other.
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