Quote by Mary McCarthy
People with bad consciences always fear the judgment of children.

People with bad consciences always fear the judgment of children. – Mary McCarthy

Other quotes by Mary McCarthy

Anti-Semitism is a horrible disease from which nobody is immune, and it has a kind of evil fascination that makes an enlightened person draw near the source of infection, supposedly in a scientific spirit, but really to sniff the vapors and dally with the possibility. – Mary McCarthy

Category:
Racism
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You musnt force sex to do the work of love or love to do the work of sex. – Mary McCarthy

Category:
work
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Liberty, as it is conceived by current opinion, has nothing inherent about it it is a sort of gift or trust bestowed on the individual by the state pending good behavior. – Mary McCarthy

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Trust
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Other Quotes from
Fear
category

I cant understand people calling themselves religious and being hateful. If a preacher is preaching hate, to fear God thats not religion, thats not helping humanity, thats organizing an army to defeat somebody. – Mojo Nixon

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Fear

Sides are being divided now. Its very obvious. So if youre on the other side of the fence, youre suddenly anti-American. Its breeding fear of being on the wrong side. – Sam Shepard

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Fear

Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil. – Aristotle

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Fear

Should we fear hackers? Intention is at the heart of this discussion. – Kevin Mitnick

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Fear

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It was clear to me that the forms of consciousness of our inherited and acquired historical education – aesthetic consciousness and historical consciousness – presented alienated forms of our true historical being. – Hans-Georg Gadamer

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Millions of dollars worth of advertising shows such little respect for the readers intelligence that it amounts almost to outright insult. – James Randolph Adams

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What then is freedom? The power to live as one wishes. – Marcus Tullius Cicero

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