"There is only one thing more harmful to society than an elected official forgetting the promises he made in order to get elected; that’s when he doesn’t forget them."
― John McCarthy
Topic(s):
Society
More From John McCarthy
- "The peace movement is a great force for peace. Some of the world’s most quarrelsome people act out their aggressions through the peace movement."
- "In human history, the desire for revenge and the desire for loot have often been closely associated."
- "The slogan was ‘Don’t trust anyone over thirty’. Sixty years later the slogan became, ‘Don’t trust anyone over ninety’."
More In Society
- "If one could only teach the English how to talk, and the Irish how to listen, society here would be quite civilized."― Oscar Wilde
- "A Libertarian society of unfettered individualism spreads its benefits to virtually everyone – not just those who have the resources to seize political power."― Harry Browne
- "If you look at the footballers, you look at our celebrity culture, we seem to be saying, ‘This is the way you want to be’. We seem to be a society that celebrates all the wrong people."― Iain Duncan Smith