Altruism and Cynicism
173 aphorisms · 15 comments
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tiny.ag/k40t75a9 · submitted 1997
No guest is so welcome in a friend's house that he will not become a nuisance after three days.
tiny.ag/458vctqs · submitted 1997
I have discovered that all human evil comes from this, man's being unable to sit still in a room.
tiny.ag/3vps8ao4 · submitted 1998 by Caleb Ronsen
If you want to imagine the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face forever.
George Orwell, 1984, in Altruism and Cynicism
tiny.ag/aoh5h6tb · submitted 1999
Everybody wants to save the earth; nobody wants to help Mom do the dishes.
P. J. O'Rourke, All the Trouble in the World, in Altruism and Cynicism and Work and Recreation
tiny.ag/4eq50acu · submitted 1997
All lies are told with a straight face. It is truth that's said with a dismissive giggle.
tiny.ag/pl60skge · submitted 1997
Hope is nature's veil for hiding truth's nakedness.
tiny.ag/jcmyu3ji · submitted 1997
Demagogue: One who preaches a doctrine he knows to be untrue to men he knows to be idiots.
tiny.ag/jwmd8ebc · submitted 1997
Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
tiny.ag/tnirgb8y · submitted 1997
Conscience is the inner voice that warns us somebody is looking.
tiny.ag/avosjwgh · submitted 1997
I don't necessarily agree with everything I say.
tiny.ag/g7qmt4qj · submitted 1997
Welcome thy neighbor into thy fallout shelter. He'll come in handy if you run out of food.
tiny.ag/oswh8aui · submitted 1997
The only normal people are the ones you don't know very well.
tiny.ag/eh4xjmzt · submitted 1997
Love thy neighbor as thyself, but choose your neighborhood.
tiny.ag/hwvmnmsf · submitted 1997
I'd never join a club that would allow a person like me to become a member.
tiny.ag/uaqbnf1k · submitted 1997
All men are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality.
tiny.ag/q5s2gnzy · submitted 1997
Television has proved that people will look at anything rather than each other.
tiny.ag/r3gvjlqa · submitted 1997
Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
tiny.ag/bn17or2l · submitted 1997
I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it.
tiny.ag/hjysnvry · submitted 1997
If it looks like shit, smells like shit, mail it to your enemy -- he'll know what to do with it.
tiny.ag/bggvrf05 · submitted 1997
If you love something, turn it loose. If it doesn't come back, kill it!
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