Mccarthy Hearing Quotes & Sayings

McCarthy himself said repeatedly to millions of Americans during the spring and summer of 1954, homosexuals represented a moral cancer that posed a security risk to the United States second only to the Communist Menace. "Better Dead Than Red"? Perhaps, but McCarthy's Senate Subcommittee on Investigations wasn't crazy about lavender, either; the specter of homosexuality was a frequent guest in the Senate's hearing rooms. — Glen Weldon

It's well proved economics that if a country which is rich and a country that is poor come together in global trade, sooner or later the standard of living of the poor country will go up towards that of the rich country. — N. R. Narayana Murthy

Muscle is good, but craft is better — Wace

That was the whole point of being special: You existed to make sure everyone else behaved, but that didn't mean YOU had to. — Scott Westerfeld

Our care should not be to have lived long as to have lived enough. — Lucius Annaeus Seneca

It evolved from my experience in the fifties, growing up during the McCarthy era, and hearing a lot of assumptions that America was wonderful and Communism was terrible. — Warren Farrell

Litigation: A form of hell whereby money is transferred from the pockets of the proletariat to that of lawyers. — Kin Hubbard

The most important thing is not life, but the good life. — Plato

Being and stability are regarded by our contemporaries as akin to death; they cannot live unless they act, fret, or distract themselves with this or that. Their spirit (provided we can still talk about a spirit in their case) feeds only on sensations and on dynamism, thus becoming the vehicle for the incarnation of darker forces. — Julius Evola

One man may as easily destroy, as govern: be King or Anti-King. — Ursula K. Le Guin

I am about art here, not simple reproduction. — David Foster Wallace

It starts when you begin to overlook good manners. Any time you quit hearing Sir and Mam the end is pretty much in sight ... — Cormac McCarthy

What kind of damage is done to our ability to love or understand and thus fully judge one another when daily we're encouraged to forget that people are people and view them instead as so much pasteboard, scenery, clutter, generalized instances (of murder, of rape, of embezzlement, etc.)? — Charles D'Ambrosio

The truth is that no horizon is especially interesting by itself, by virtue of its peculiar content, and that any horizon, wide or narrow, brilliant or dull, varied or monotonous, may possess an interest of its own which merely requires a vital adjustment to be discovered. — Jose Ortega Y Gasset

Fearful leaders love to stay in the morass of insignificant details. Because the details are usually unimportant, it is difficult to make a mistake of consequence. Of course, it's impossible to do anything of consequence when your focus is on those things that really don't make a difference. — Thom S. Rainer

even if we only gain a psychological advantage, that can mean the difference between victory and defeat. I'm reminded of the words of my father the king, who says that battles are decided more by the morale of the troops than by their bodily strength." Syazarees — Xenophon

After hearing from my colleagues, I have decided to run for Speaker of the House. Let's work together to make a difference for our country. — Kevin McCarthy