Altruism and Cynicism
173 aphorisms · 15 comments
Aphorisms in This Category
121–140 (174)
tiny.ag/nqcfjvh0 · ★★☆☆ Fair (57 ratings) · submitted 1997
Natives who beat drums to drive off evil spirits are objects of scorn to smart Americans who blow horns to break up traffic jams.
tiny.ag/sc3tpgkp · ★★☆☆ Fair (174 ratings) · submitted 1997
We have met the enemy, and he is us.
tiny.ag/mnrh4p2b · ★★☆☆ Fair (608 ratings) · submitted 1997
Always forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
John F. Kennedy, in Altruism and Cynicism and Vice and Virtue
tiny.ag/uaqbnf1k · ★★☆☆ Fair (316 ratings) · submitted 1997
All men are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality.
tiny.ag/uapy9tbq · ★★☆☆ Fair (119 ratings) · submitted 1997
A man never stands as tall as when he kneels to help a child.
tiny.ag/jsphv1u4 · ★★☆☆ Fair (1024 ratings) · submitted 1999
A cynic is one who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.
tiny.ag/kd1gueir · ★★☆☆ Fair (475 ratings) · submitted 1997
A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
tiny.ag/cjkab7en · ★★☆☆ Fair (466 ratings) · submitted 1997
I can resist everything except temptation.
tiny.ag/vwaksnik · ★★☆☆ Fair (453 ratings) · submitted 1997
The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.
tiny.ag/0fxuodhb · ★★☆☆ Fair (460 ratings) · submitted 1997
The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple.
tiny.ag/knyvxbon · ★★☆☆ Fair (232 ratings) · submitted 1997
Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.
tiny.ag/9djxhqx6 · ★★☆☆ Fair (116 ratings) · submitted 1997
If you think nobody cares if you're alive, try missing a couple of car payments.
tiny.ag/td1vfiu9 · ★★☆☆ Fair (121 ratings) · submitted 1997
Cynics regard everybody as equally corrupt... Idealists regard everybody as equally corrupt, except themselves.
tiny.ag/7do2rifh · ★★☆☆ Fair (140 ratings) · submitted 1997
The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to other creatures; but the fact that he can do wrong proves his moral inferiority to any creature that cannot.
Mark Twain, What is Man?, 1906, in Altruism and Cynicism
tiny.ag/r6bo5aic · ★★☆☆ Fair (234 ratings) · submitted 1998 by Mark van Essen
Black, white, brown, yellow or even red, we piss with our pants down, and go naked to bed.
tiny.ag/otpgz4zj · ★★☆☆ Fair (93 ratings) · submitted 1997
A narcissist is someone better looking than you are.
tiny.ag/5otyux70 · ★★☆☆ Fair (121 ratings) · submitted 1997
I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: "O Lord, make my enemies ridiculous." And God granted it.
tiny.ag/58hbs9pq · ★★☆☆ Fair (67 ratings) · submitted 1997
It's not true that nice guys finish last. Nice guys are winners before the game even starts.
tiny.ag/amzxlbug · ★★☆☆ Fair (148 ratings) · submitted 1997
All humans are hypocrites; the biggest hypocrite of all is the one who claims to detest hypocrisy.
tiny.ag/k8lcsqdw · ★★☆☆ Fair (934 ratings) · submitted 1997
Heck, what's a little extortion among friends?
Bill Watterson, Calvin and Hobbes, in Altruism and Cynicism
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