Altruism and Cynicism
173 aphorisms · 15 comments
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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/rxylykkp · submitted 1997
Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
tiny.ag/crm6g7ll · submitted 1997
We can do no great things; only small things with great love.
tiny.ag/uapy9tbq · submitted 1997
A man never stands as tall as when he kneels to help a child.
tiny.ag/f9zmepch · submitted 1997
He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.
tiny.ag/b4tuds1y · 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 · submitted 1997
I never know how much of what I say is true.
tiny.ag/7gz85bqy · submitted 1997
The cynics are right nine times out of ten.
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/avosjwgh · submitted 1997
I don't necessarily agree with everything I say.
tiny.ag/ojk8xbtj · submitted 1997
Bigot: One who is obstinately and zealously attached to an opinion that you do not entertain.
Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, in Altruism and Cynicism
tiny.ag/vr4hxjva · submitted 1997
Egoist: A person of low taste, more interested in themselves than in me.
Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, in Altruism and Cynicism
tiny.ag/dxvyak3f · submitted 1997
Eulogy: Praise of a person who has either the advantages of wealth and power, or the consideration to be dead.
Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, in Altruism and Cynicism
tiny.ag/bn17or2l · submitted 1997
I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it.
tiny.ag/tnirgb8y · submitted 1997
Conscience is the inner voice that warns us somebody is looking.
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/hwvmnmsf · submitted 1997
I'd never join a club that would allow a person like me to become a member.
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