Mary McCarthy

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

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

I suppose everyone continues to be interested in the quest for the self, but what you feel when you're older, read more

I suppose everyone continues to be interested in the quest for the self, but what you feel when you're older, I think, is that. . . you really must make the self.

Every age has a keyhole to which its eye is pasted.

Every age has a keyhole to which its eye is pasted.

Liberty, as it is conceived by current opinion, has nothing inherent about it; it is a sort of gift or read more

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.

In violence, we forget who we are

In violence, we forget who we are