# Quote — Mary McCarthy, The Group

> It struck her that becoming a Trotskyite had merely given him one more thing to be snobbish about. He now looked down his nose at Stalinists, progressives, and New Dealers, as well as on the middle class and the 'moneyed elements,' whom he had always derided. Some of his worst prejudices, she told him, scolding, were being reinforced by his new adherence. For example, coming from Massachusetts, he had a plaintive aversion to the Irish, and he was elated to hear that Marx had called the Irish the bribed tools of imperialism. 'Look at that bribed tool of imperialism!' he would whisper, of the poor policeman on the beat.

- Author: [Mary McCarthy](https://www.leafyquotes.com/mary-mccarthy.md)
- Book: [The Group](https://www.leafyquotes.com/mary-mccarthy/the-group.md)
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- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/mary-mccarthy/the-group/it-struck-her-that

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> As Socrates showed, love cannot be anything else but the love of the good. But to find the good is very rare. That is why love is rare, in spite of what people think. It happens to one in a thousand, and to that one it is a revelation. No wonder he cannot communicate with the other nine hundred and ninety-nine.

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