Altruism and Cynicism
173 aphorisms · 14 comments
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tiny.ag/y9w5ki2b · ★★☆☆ Fair (267 ratings) · submitted 1997
No man would listen to you talk if he didn't know it was his turn next.
tiny.ag/f9zmepch · ★★☆☆ Fair (46 ratings) · submitted 1997
He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.
tiny.ag/crm6g7ll · ★★☆☆ Fair (120 ratings) · submitted 1997
We can do no great things; only small things with great love.
tiny.ag/rxylykkp · ★★☆☆ Fair (186 ratings) · submitted 1997
Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
tiny.ag/0iltdhzx · ★★☆☆ Fair (341 ratings) · submitted 1997
The victor will never be asked if he told the truth.
tiny.ag/znd6chuu · ★★☆☆ Fair (309 ratings) · submitted 1997
I use emotion for the many and reserve reason for the few.
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/sq9g8eav · ★★☆☆ Fair (3330 ratings) · submitted 1997
tiny.ag/iobj0muk · ★★☆☆ Fair (476 ratings) · submitted 1997
Cynicism is an unpleasant way of saying the truth.
tiny.ag/u1edofwc · ★★☆☆ Fair (103 ratings) · submitted 1997
One nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
tiny.ag/mcsdq3k5 · ★★☆☆ Fair (117 ratings) · 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/6jxieopf · ★★☆☆ Fair (466 ratings) · submitted 1997
A bore is a man who deprives you of solitude without providing you with company.
tiny.ag/7guwnmr1 · ★★☆☆ Fair (879 ratings) · 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/tnirgb8y · ★★☆☆ Fair (187 ratings) · submitted 1997
Conscience is the inner voice that warns us somebody is looking.
tiny.ag/avosjwgh · ★★☆☆ Fair (324 ratings) · submitted 1997
I don't necessarily agree with everything I say.
tiny.ag/jwmd8ebc · ★★☆☆ Fair (192 ratings) · submitted 1997
Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
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.
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