Altruism and Cynicism
173 aphorisms · 15 comments
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141–160 (174)
tiny.ag/mjjtqyix · submitted 1997
An excuse is the mark of a moral coward.
tiny.ag/9einaqki · submitted 1997
We must believe in luck. For how else can we explain the success of those we don't like?
Jean Cocteau, in Altruism and Cynicism and Success and Failure
tiny.ag/vlei56tn · submitted 1997
Every age is fed on illusions, lest men should renounce life early and the human race come to an end.
tiny.ag/7guwnmr1 · submitted 1997
I don't want any "yes-men" around me. I want everybody to tell me the truth even if it costs them their jobs.
tiny.ag/6jxieopf · submitted 1997
A bore is a man who deprives you of solitude without providing you with company.
tiny.ag/mcsdq3k5 · submitted 1997
A learned County Court judge in a book of memoirs recently said that the overwhelming amount of his time on the bench was taken up "with people who are persuaded by persons whom they do not know to enter into contracts that they do not understand to purchase goods that they do not want with money that they have not got."
tiny.ag/u1edofwc · submitted 1997
One nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
tiny.ag/iobj0muk · submitted 1997
Cynicism is an unpleasant way of saying the truth.
tiny.ag/sq9g8eav · submitted 1997
tiny.ag/dochckvh · 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 · submitted 1997
I use emotion for the many and reserve reason for the few.
tiny.ag/0iltdhzx · submitted 1997
The victor will never be asked if he told the truth.
tiny.ag/bahg3dko · submitted 1997
We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.
tiny.ag/xhlm9fsi · submitted 1997
In spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart.
tiny.ag/eh4xjmzt · submitted 1997
Love thy neighbor as thyself, but choose your neighborhood.
tiny.ag/pbhm4rie · submitted 1997
Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them.
tiny.ag/lgolcdhe · submitted 1997
Getting caught is the mother of invention.
tiny.ag/gu6tloek · submitted 1997
An honest politician is one who, when he is bought, will stay bought.
Simon Cameron, in Altruism and Cynicism and Law and Politics
tiny.ag/p7q95xlg · submitted 1997
Hypocrisy is the vaseline of social intercourse.
tiny.ag/xjumrw8y · submitted 1997
Everything is controlled by a small evil group to which, unfortunately, no one we know belongs.
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