Quotes by Mary McCarthy

Bureaucracy, the rule of no one, has become the modern form of despotism.

— Mary McCarthy

Wisdom

If someone tells you he is going to make a “realistic decision,” you immediately understand that he has resolved to do something bad.

— Mary McCarthy

Wisdom

There are no new truths, but only truths that have not been recognized by those who have perceived them without noticing. A truth is something that everyone can be shown to know and to have known, as people say, all along.

— Mary McCarthy

Truth

In violence, we forget who we are.

— Mary McCarthy

Wisdom