Altruism and Cynicism
173 aphorisms · 15 comments
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tiny.ag/xjumrw8y · submitted 1997
Everything is controlled by a small evil group to which, unfortunately, no one we know belongs.
tiny.ag/kf8mzunf · submitted 1997
Don't tell any big lies today. Small ones can be just as effective.
tiny.ag/ugaap1m5 · submitted 1997
Cynics are made, not born.
tiny.ag/dx8nfe71 · submitted 1997
Better to light a candle than to curse the darkness.
Unknown, (Chinese proverb), in Altruism and Cynicism
tiny.ag/0fbye8uj · submitted 1997
Beat your own and others will fear you.
Unknown, (Russian proverb), in Altruism and Cynicism
tiny.ag/hwvmnmsf · submitted 1997
I'd never join a club that would allow a person like me to become a member.
tiny.ag/bn17or2l · submitted 1997
I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it.
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/avosjwgh · submitted 1997
I don't necessarily agree with everything I say.
tiny.ag/tnirgb8y · submitted 1997
Conscience is the inner voice that warns us somebody is looking.
tiny.ag/jwmd8ebc · submitted 1997
Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
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/uapy9tbq · submitted 1997
A man never stands as tall as when he kneels to help a child.
tiny.ag/eh4xjmzt · submitted 1997
Love thy neighbor as thyself, but choose your neighborhood.
tiny.ag/jsphv1u4 · submitted 1999
A cynic is one who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.
tiny.ag/cjkab7en · submitted 1997
I can resist everything except temptation.
tiny.ag/kd1gueir · submitted 1997
A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
tiny.ag/9djxhqx6 · submitted 1997
If you think nobody cares if you're alive, try missing a couple of car payments.
tiny.ag/knyvxbon · submitted 1997
Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.
tiny.ag/0fxuodhb · submitted 1997
The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple.
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