Greatest Quotes of all Time

[Prospero]

Heaven is my judge, not I for love and duty,
But seeming so, for my peculiar end:
For when my outward action doth demonstrate
The native act and figure of my heart
In compliment extern, 'tis not long after
But I will wear my heart upon my sleeve
For daws to peck at: I am not what I am.
Iago, Othello scene I

[iamdrgonzo]

"By what right do men exercise power over each other?"

~ Auberon Herbert

[south ov da border]

"if bitches ain't shit but hoes and tricks, then niggas ain't shit but hoes with dicks"-Ras Kass...

[iamdrgonzo]

"New opinions often appear first as jokes and fancies, then as blasphemies and treason, then as questions open to discussion, and finally as established truths"
~ George Bernard Shaw

[iamdrgonzo]

"Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience."

~ C. S. Lewis, God in the Dock (1971)

[iamdrgonzo]

"Violence is the first refuge of the incompetent." ~Isaac Asimov

[johnnieev]

"Try not. Do.....or do not. There is no try." ~Yoda

[CORVETTEDUDE]

"The world will end May 21, 2011 @ 6:00PM" / Some dumb fuck.

[iamdrgonzo]

“It is the duty of the patriot to protect his country from its government.”

~ Thomas Paine

[iamdrgonzo]

"Whoever degrades another degrades me, And whatever is done or said returns at last to me."

~ Walt Whitman

[south ov da border]

used ta is the rooster from brewster...

[seamonkey]

"Gloria Estefan is what you would get if the Taco Bell chihuahua impregnated Celine Dion."

[Stavros]

'The best way to become a millionaire is to start out a billionaire and invest your money in the railways'
Richard Branson

[iamdrgonzo]

"This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs; when he first appears he is a protector."

~ Plato

[iamdrgonzo]

“A gentleman is someone who never gives offense — unintentionally.”

~ Oscar Wilde

[drongo]

Don't count the days, make the days count.

Muhammad Ali. :Bowdown:

[iamdrgonzo]

"Well done is better than well said."

~ Benjamin Franklin

[Jericho]

At that price, she'd better fuck him like Helen of Troy with her arse on fire, or I'll know the reason why!
:: Titus Pullo

[trish]

One for memorial day: "Things are more like they are today than they have ever been before."__Dwight Eisenhower

[Stavros]

I am deputy chairman of the finance committee of FIFA. I oversee a budget of US$2 billion and I have never seen one iota of corruption.’Jack Warner, Trinidad Express 12 December 2004

[iamdrgonzo]

"Live free or die. Death is not the worst of evils." ~ John Stark

[misfit]

If at first you don`t succeed keep on sucking till you do succeed.

NYUK NYUK NYUK

[iamdrgonzo]

“Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.” ~ Albert Einstein

[south ov da border]

Son, when a woman says nothing's wrong, it means everything's wrong. When a woman says everything's wrong, it means EVERYTHING'S wrong. And when a woman says that something *isn't* funny, you'd better not laugh your ass off!- Homer Simpson...

[iamdrgonzo]

"I only ask to be free. The butterflies are free. Mankind will surely not deny to [me] what it concedes to the butterflies!"

~ Charles Dickens

[stephenward]

"Brian: You're all individuals! Man in crowd: I'm not..." Life of Brian, Monty Python

"Youth is wasted on the young." - George Bernard Shaw

"Nuts!" - General Anthony McAuliffe, Battle of the Bulge, when asked to surrender at Bastogne

"I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal."" - Martin Luther King, I Have A Dream speech

"Meet the new boss, same as the old boss." - Pete Townshend

"The lady doth protest too much, methinks." - Hamlet Act 3, scene 2, line 230, William Shakespeare

[Jericho]

So, I headbutted the cunny and bit his tongue out...Tasted like chicken!
:: Titus Pulllo

[iamdrgonzo]

"Yes, ’n’ how many times can a man turn his head
Pretending he just doesn’t see?

Yes, ’n’ how many ears must one man have
Before he can hear people cry?"

~ Bob Dylan, Blowin' In The Wind

[envivision]

Relax, don't do it, when you want to come

[Elysian]

"Fuck Me! It's a bloke!" The desperate dude whom discovered my secret.

[Dino Velvet]

"Speak English Or Die!" S.O.D.

[iamdrgonzo]

"Once a government is committed to the principle of silencing the voice of opposition, it has only one way to go, and that is down the path of increasingly repressive measures, until it becomes a source of terror to all its citizens and creates a country where everyone lives in fear. " ~ Harry S Truman

[iamdrgonzo]

"I am surrounded by priests who repeat incessantly that their kingdom is not of this world, and yet they lay their hands on everything they can get."

~ Napoleon Bonaparte

[iamdrgonzo]

"The most powerful weapon on earth is the human soul on fire."
~ Ferdinand Foch

[Edwoodwoodwood]

"Slippery little suckers" Julia Roberts in Pretty Woman when trying to pluck snails from their shells.

[Edwoodwoodwood]

Quotes from an all time classic movie; My Cousin Vinny


Vinny Gambini (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000582/): It is possible that the two yutes...
Judge Chamberlain Haller (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001304/): ...Ah, the two what? Uh... uh, what was that word?
Vinny Gambini (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000582/): Uh... what word?
Judge Chamberlain Haller (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001304/): Two what?
Vinny Gambini (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000582/): What?
Judge Chamberlain Haller (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001304/): Uh... did you say 'yutes'?
Vinny Gambini (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000582/): Yeah, two yutes.
Judge Chamberlain Haller (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001304/): What is a yute?
[beat]
Vinny Gambini (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000582/): Oh, excuse me, your honor...
[exaggerated]
Vinny Gambini (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000582/): Two YOUTHS.

http://www.members.tripod.com/SoundBytes1/mcvinny/mcvyutes.wav

[ELSAPO]

"Is a Catalac!" Scareface.

[suttonporksword]

All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others

[LibertyHarkness]

Hudson (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000200/): Hey Vasquez, have you ever been mistaken for a man?
Vasquez (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001280/): No. Have you?

[LibertyHarkness]

Hudson (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000200/): I'm ready, man, check it out. I am the ultimate badass! State of the badass art! You do NOT wanna fuck with me. Check it out! Hey Ripley, don't worry. Me and my squad of ultimate badasses will protect you! Check it out! Independently targeting particle beam phalanx. Vwap! Fry half a city with this puppy. We got tactical smart missiles, phase-plasma pulse rifles, RPGs, we got sonic electronic ball breakers! We got nukes, we got knives, sharp sticks...

[LAGent4ts]

“Boys will be boys. But boys will not be president.”
Attributed to Ronald Regan upon hearing about presidential prospect Gary Hart getting caught up with Donna Rice on the yacht Monkey Business.

[Imakeiteazy]

BUSH


1) . "There's an old saying in Tennessee -- I know it's in Texas, probably in Tennessee -- that says, fool me once, shame on --shame on you. Fool me -- you can't get fooled again." --Nashville, Tenn., Sept. 17


2) "Rarely is the questioned asked: Is our children learning?" --Florence, South Carolina, Jan. 11, 2000

[scubaman]

YouTube - ‪Bush "Fool Me Once..."‬‏ (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eKgPY1adc0A)

YouTube - ‪Rarely is the question asked...‬‏ (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ej7ZEnjSeA)

[iamdrgonzo]

“We must take the bull by the tail and face the situation!”
~ W.C. Fields

[iamdrgonzo]

"Whenever the legislators endeavor to take away and destroy the property of the people, or to reduce them to slavery under arbitrary power, they put themselves into a state of war with the people, who are thereupon absolved from any further obedience."

~ John Locke

[loren]

That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed (http://www.hungangels.com/wiki/Consent_of_the_governed), That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it

Declaration of Independence (http://www.hungangels.com/wiki/Right_of_revolution)

[Ineeda SM]

If at first you don't succeed, jerk off again.
.....George Carlin

[CORVETTEDUDE]

Don't argue with an idiot! He/She will drag you down to their level and kick your ass with experience! (Unk)

[iamdrgonzo]

"All my life I have never had anything but chuck steak. Now I'm gonna get me some tenderloin."

~ Alexander "Clubber" Williams 19th Century NYPD Officer who "commanded" NYC's 1st vice-squad

[iamdrgonzo]

"To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities."
~ Bruce Lee

[CORVETTEDUDE]

"You're never too old to learn something stupid!" Yogi Berra

[iamdrgonzo]

"It's still the same old story
A Holy bloody War, you know, with the Pope and all that stuff
I fight for love and glory
Ain't gonna study no war, more war
I fight for God and country, the Queen and all that
We're gonna set you free. yeah? all them "nig-nogs"? sure...
Bomb you back into the fuckin' Stone Age
If you won't be like me, you know, get down on your knees and pray"

~ John Lennon, Serve Yourself

[iamdrgonzo]

"Government is the great fiction through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else."

~ Frederic Bastiat

[iamdrgonzo]

"Single acts of tyranny may be ascribed to the accidental opinion of a day. But a series of oppressions, begun at a distinguished period, and pursued unalterably through every change of ministers, too plainly proves a deliberate systematic plan of reducing us to slavery."

~ Thomas Jefferson

[iamdrgonzo]

"Emergencies” have always been the pretext on which the safeguards of individual liberty have eroded."

~ Friedrich von Hayek

[iamdrgonzo]

"If you want total security, go to prison. There you're fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking... is freedom."
~ Dwight Eisenhower

[Prospero]

"We sleep safely at night because rough men stand ready to visit violence on those who would harm us."
— Winston S. Churchill

[Prospero]

The unexamined life is not worth living for a human being. (ho de anexetastos bios ou biôtos anthrôpôi — ὁ δὲ ἀνεξέταστος βίος οὐ βιωτὸς ἀνθρώπῳ)

Socrates

[CORVETTEDUDE]

"I always take life with a grain of salt, plus a slece of lemon and a shot of Tequila!"

< Jimmy Buffett >

[iamdrgonzo]

New York State Senator Roy McDonald, one of a handful of Republicans bucking their own party who will vote to legalize gay marriage in the state of New York, got sick and tired of being pushed around by gay marriage opponents. He released a statement to the press with the following quote:

"You get to the point where you evolve in your life where everything isn't black and white, good and bad, and you try to do the right thing," McDonald, 64, told reporters. "You might not like that. You might be very cynical about that. Well, fuck it, I don't care what you think. I'm trying to do the right thing. "I'm tired of Republican-Democrat politics. They can take the job and shove it. I come from a blue-collar background. I'm trying to do the right thing, and that's where I'm going with this."

[Jericho]

How would you like to suck my balls, Mr. Garrison?
:: Cartman

[iamdrgonzo]

"Power is tearing human minds apart and putting them back together in new shapes of your own choosing."
~ O'Brien from Orwell's 1984

[iamdrgonzo]

"Some glory in their birth, some in their skill…"
~ William Shakespeare, Sonnet 91

[iamdrgonzo]

“If those in charge of our society – politicians, corporate executives, and owners of press and television – can dominate our ideas, they will be secure in their power. They will not need soldiers patrolling the streets. We will control ourselves.”

~ Howard Zinn

[nonnonnon]

"Show me a young Conservative and I'll show you someone with no heart. Show me an old Liberal and I'll show you someone with no brains."

[LibertyHarkness]

'They shall be my finest warriors, these men who give themselves to me.
Like clay I shall mould them and in the furnace of war I shall forge them.
They will be of iron will and steely muscle.
In great armour shall I clad them and with the mightiest gun shall they be armed.
They will be untouched by plague or disease, no sickness will blight them.
They will have tactics, strategies and machines such that no foe will best them in battle.
They are my bulwark against the terror.
They are the defenders of Humanity.
They are my Space Marines...
...and they shall know no fear.'
"Emperor of Mankind Yr 30k"

"Another day nearer the battle
So drink up, lads and look brave.
For another day nearer the battle
Is another day nearer the grave."
(commisar Yarrick - Imperial Guard)

"In an hour of darkness a blind man is the best guide. In an age of insanity look to the madman to show the way."

"An open mind is like a fortress with its gates unbarred and unguarded."

"Hope is the first step on the road to disappointment."

"Victory needs no explanation, defeat allows none." (Warmaster Horus)

[iamdrgonzo]

"Tyrants have not yet discovered any chains that can fetter the mind."
~ Charles Caleb Colton

[iamdrgonzo]

"Science is the belief in the ignorance of the experts" ~ Richard Feynman

[CORVETTEDUDE]

"There was a girl knocking on my hotel room door all night! Finally, I let her out!!!!" Heny Youngman:)

[iamdrgonzo]

"One is misled not by what he does not know but by what he believes he knows"
~ Jean Jacques Rousseau

[iamdrgonzo]

"I tell you, we are here on Earth to fart around and don't let anybody tell you different."
~ Kurt Vonnegut

[loren]

I expect war in all things, and I'm rarely dissapointed or caught unaware.

General Sturnn

[rover187]

Pressure makes diamonds

[Prospero]

The journey of a thousand miles starts with a single step
Lao Tzu

[iamdrgonzo]

"To practice any art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow. So do it."

~ Kurt Vonnegut

[CORVETTEDUDE]

"The problem with the world is everybody's a few drinks behind!"....Humphrey Bogart

[iamdrgonzo]

"So it goes"

~ Kurt Vonnegut

[CORVETTEDUDE]

"The more I think of you, the less I think of you!" ... Heny Youngman

[iamdrgonzo]

“Propaganda’s chief requirement is not so much to be rational, well-grounded and powerful as it is to produce individuals especially open to suggestion who can be easily set into motion.”
~ Jacques Ellul, author of The Technological Society

[Jericho]

I don't care, Chinese, Japanese or Chuckie cheese, bitch is stealing my business!
::My Name Is Earl

[loren]

Always mystify, mislead and surprise the enemy; and when you strike and overcome him, never let up in the pursuit. Never fight against heavy odds if you can hurl your own force on only a part of your enemy and crush it. A small army may thus destroy a large one, and repeated victory will make you invincible.

Lt. General "Stonewall" Jackson

[StlyeMeCunty]

i don't care, chinese, japanese or chuckie cheese, bitch is stealing my business!
::my name is earl

yessssssssssssssssssssssssss!!!!!!

[Stavros]

Tango! Tango! Tango! Tango! Tango! Tango! (repeat for 11 minutes while dancing around a shed completely pissed)

-Bela Tarr, Agnes Hradnitzky, Satantango

[Prospero]

Oh my god... stavros is filling every thread with stuff about Satantango.... help!

"Are you talking t me? If you're not talking t me, who are you talking to."

[iamdrgonzo]

"Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities."

~ Voltaire

[JackBeLittle]

Always mystify, mislead and surprise the enemy; and when you strike and overcome him, never let up in the pursuit. Never fight against heavy odds if you can hurl your own force on only a part of your enemy and crush it. A small army may thus destroy a large one, and repeated victory will make you invincible.

Lt. General "Stonewall" Jackson


I don't know how much good any advice from Jackson is, since he lost. "Jackson was not universally successful as a commander, however, as displayed by his weak and confused efforts during the Seven Days Battles around Richmond in 1862"

[loren]

I don't know how much good any advice from Jackson is, since he lost. "Jackson was not universally successful as a commander, however, as displayed by his weak and confused efforts during the Seven Days Battles around Richmond in 1862"Jackson's behavior during the Seven Days Campaign is an oddity. He wasn't his usual hard driving and aggressive self. It is possible that he was simply fatigued from his Valley campaign, or that he didn't understand General Lee's style of command.

[loren]

"Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities."

~ Voltaire
"God is not on the side of the big battalions, but on the side of those who shoot best."

Voltaire

[iamdrgonzo]

"Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide."

~ John Adams

[iamdrgonzo]

"I'm for truth, no matter who tells it. I'm for justice, no matter who it is for or against. I'm a human being, first and foremost, and as such I'm for whoever and whatever benefits humanity as a whole."

~ Malcolm X

[Helvis2012]

This above all: to thine own self be true,
And it must follow, as the night the day,
Thou canst not then be false to any man.
Farewell, my blessing season this in thee!

-William Shakespeare

[iamdrgonzo]

"Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect."
~ Mark Twain

[iamdrgonzo]

"It is incredible how soon as a people becomes subject, it promptly falls into such complete forgetfulness of its freedom that it can hardly be roused to the point of regaining it, obeying so easily and so willingly that one is led to say ... that this people has not so much lost its liberty as won its enslavement."

~ Etienne de La Boetie, The Politics of Obedience: The Discourse of Voluntary Servitude

[Prospero]

Duke Ellington once said " There are only two types of Music...good music and bad music"

[iamdrgonzo]

"Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat, but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires."

~ John Steinbeck

[iamdrgonzo]

"The world is not an evil place because of those who do evil, but rather because of those who sit back and let it happen."
~ Albert Einstein

[iamdrgonzo]

"If we do not prepare for ourselves the role of the hammer, there will be nothing left but that of the anvil."

~ Otto von Bismarck, 1851

[southern81]

A wise and frugal government, which shall leave men free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned - this is the sum of good government.
Thomas Jefferson

[iamdrgonzo]

"Resistance to the organized mass can be effected only by the man who is as well organized in his individuality as the mass itself.”

~ Carl Jung

[iamdrgonzo]

"We strive to soothe our madness by intoning more and more vacuous clichés. And at such times, far from being as innocuous as they are absurd, empty slogans take on dreadful power."
~ Thomas Merton from Peace in the Post-Christian Era

[iamdrgonzo]

"Many people would sooner die than think. In fact they do."

~ Bertrand Russell

[seamonkey]

"I really feel more like I do now than I did before."

"No matter where you go, there you are."

"Dammit, Jim, I'm a doctor, not a bricklayer!"

"Pull the wool over your OWN eyes!"

"That's going to leave a mark."

[iamdrgonzo]

"Men will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest."
~ Denis Diderot

[iamdrgonzo]

"There is no flag large enough to cover the shame of killing innocent people."

~ Howard Zinn

[iamdrgonzo]

"Our job is to give people not what they want, but what we decide they ought to have."

~ Richard Salent, former President CBS News

[iamdrgonzo]

"When machines and computers, profit motives and property rights are considered more important than people, the giant triplets of racism, materialism, and militarism are incapable of being conquered."

~ Martin Luther King, Jr.

[iamdrgonzo]

"If people insist on living as if there's no tomorrow, there really won't be one."
~ Kurt Vonnegut

[iamdrgonzo]

"The propagandist's purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human."

~ Aldous Huxley

[Jericho]

Demoralize the enemy from within by surprise, terror, sabotage, assassination. This is the war of the future.
::: Adolf Hitler

[iamdrgonzo]

"A democracy is nothing more than mob rule, where fifty-one percent of the people may take away the rights of the other forty-nine."
~ Thomas Jefferson

[iamdrgonzo]

"America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves."


~ Abraham Lincoln

[Jericho]

dilligaf :shrug

[loren]

"There is no flag large enough to cover the shame of killing innocent people."

~ Howard Zinn

There is no such thing as innocence, only degrees of guilt.
Warhammer 40K

[Lawyer4Trannies]

Il falpap ar ri. E don tlap, a tele te tri.

~Flon Peine

[iamdrgonzo]

"Ashes and diamonds
Foe and friend
We were all equal in the end"

~ Roger Waters, Two Suns in the Sunset from Pink Floyd's The Final Cut

[Prospero]

Nietszche ""Without music, life would be a mistake, a grind, an exile"

[iamdrgonzo]

"We cannot defend freedom abroad by deserting it at home."
~ Edward R. Murrow

[ELSAPO]

"You will never get ahead if you are busy getting even" Some video game.

[south ov da border]

O'Toole's Observation on Murphy's Law:
Murphy was an optimist.


"A little piece of paper called a 'paycheck' can literally keep people from thinking."
-- Jock Doubleday


"There have been tyrants, and murderers, and for a time they can seem invincible. But in the end they always fall. Think of it. Always."
-- Mahatma Gandhi


"The truth is, there is no Islamic army or terrorist group called Al Qaida. And any informed intelligence officer knows this. But there is a propaganda campaign to make the public believe in the presence of an identified entity representing the 'devil' only in order to drive the TV watcher to accept a unified international leadership for a war against terrorism. The country behind this propaganda is the US . . ."
-- Former British Foreign Secretary Robin Cook

...

[Lawyer4Trannies]

"The truth is, there is no Islamic army or terrorist group called Al Qaida. And any informed intelligence officer knows this. But there is a propaganda campaign to make the public believe in the presence of an identified entity representing the 'devil' only in order to drive the TV watcher to accept a unified international leadership for a war against terrorism. The country behind this propaganda is the US . . ."
-- Former British Foreign Secretary Robin Cook

...

Leave it to the brits to say the dumbest shit.

[MdR Dave]

"Why don't you put a wig on your football and ask it to be your friend?"

Nicole Dupre.

[iamdrgonzo]

"I am become death, the destroyer of worlds."

~ J. Robert Oppenheimer, "father" of the atomic bomb.

[BellaBellucci]

'It is of no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.' --Jiddu Krishnamurti

~BB~

[BellaBellucci]

Leave it to the brits to say the dumbest shit.

Hey Braintrust. Al-Qaeda means 'the base,' as in 'the database,' as in the database of mujahideen warriors enlisted and trained and financed (to the tune of $3.5 billion) by the CIA during the Afghan/Soviet war. And who was the Director if the CIA at the time? That's right: none other than George Herbert Walker Bush, AKA Bush 41.

In short, they were our guys once, as was Saddam Hussein, and we all know how that turned out.

You're a lawyer huh? Personal injury I'm sure. Lowest common denominator.

http://www.power-of-attorneys.com/store/images/ambulance%20chaser%20stus.gif

~BB~

[Yvonne183]

Ding Dong the witch is dead-A Munchkin

[loveboof]

"I am become death, the destroyer of worlds."

~ J. Robert Oppenheimer, "father" of the atomic bomb.
That is awesome, except he was already quoting some ancient Hindu text there...

[Prospero]

It is Shiva from the Bhagavad Gita

[Jericho]

Leave it to the brits to say the dumbest shit.

“The genius of you Americans is that you never make clear-cut stupid moves, only complicated stupid moves which make the rest of us wonder at the possibility that we might be missing something.”

::: Gamal Abdel Nasser

[iamdrgonzo]

That is awesome, except he was already quoting some ancient Hindu text there...

Yes, I know, I was just being lazy.


Prospero nailed it for me though:


It is Shiva from the Bhagavad Gita

[Clumper]

Henry Hill: As far back as I can remember, I always wanted to be a gangster.

[King_Krollen]

"Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win." — Stephen King

[iamdrgonzo]

"To educate a man is to unfit him to be a slave." ~ Frederick Douglass

[iamdrgonzo]

"Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it."
~ Blaise Pascal

[loveboof]

"To thine own self be true" ~ Hamlet Act 1, scene 3 (Polonius)

[Paladin]

Here are a few more from Sir Winston, the greatest Englishman of all time:

If Hitler invaded hell I would make at least a favorable reference to the devil in the House of Commons. - stated after he was harrassed for proposing immediate aid to the Soviet Union after the German invasion shortly after 22 June 1941.

This is one of his absolute best:

What General Weygand called the Battle of France is over. I expect that the Battle of Britain is about to begin. Upon this battle depends the survival of Christian civilization. Upon it depends our own British life, and the long continuity of our institutions and our Empire. The whole fury and might of the enemy must very soon be turned on us. Hitler knows that he will have to break us in this Island or lose the war. If we can stand up to him, all Europe may be free and the life of the world may move forward into broad, sunlit uplands. But if we fail, then the whole world, including the United States, including all that we have known and cared for, will sink into the abyss of a new Dark Age made more sinister, and perhaps more protracted, by the lights of perverted science. Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties, and so bear ourselves that, if the British Empire and its Commonwealth last for a thousand years, men will still say, "This was their finest hour."

We could probably outstrip the cartoons thread with just Winnie quotes!

[Ineeda SM]

Any man can know lust, but a real man knows love.

........Errol Flynn

[iamdrgonzo]

"And I say to my people's masters: Beware
Beware of the thing that is coming,
Beware of the risen people
Who shall take what ye would not give...
Ye that have harried and held,
Ye that have bullied and bribed.
Tyrants… hypocrites… liars!"

~ Patrick Henry Pearse from his poem The Rebel

[TempestTS]

A little quote from Abraham Lincoln.
"I see in the near future a crisis approaching that unnerves me and causes me to tremble for the safety of my country. Corporations have been enthroned, an era of corruption in high places will follow, and the money power of the country will endeavor to prolong it's reign by working upon the prejudices of the people until the wealth is aggregated in a few hands and the republic is destroyed."

[dancespell98]

Dean Keaton said, " I don't believe in God, but I am afraid of him."
Spoken by Verbal Kind in the movies the Usual Suspects.

2 men were approaching a parked car where a trick and a working girl were in the back seat, she said that 2 men are coming towards the car. He said this, "Fuck those motherfuckers baby give me that pussy."

[iamdrgonzo]

"Man has a large capacity for effort. In fact it is so much greater than we think it is that few ever reach this capacity. We should value the faculty of knowing what we ought to do and having the will to do it. Knowing is easy; it is the doing that is difficult. The critical issue is not what we know but what we do with what we know. The great end of life is not knowledge, but action. I believe that it is the duty of each of us to act as if the fate of the world depended on him ... we must live for the future, not for our own comfort or success."


~ Hyman G. Rickover

[iamdrgonzo]

"Happiness is ideal, it is the work of the imagination."


~ Marquis de Sade

[iamdrgonzo]

"An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows. "
~Dwight D. Eisenhower

[iamdrgonzo]

"Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can?"

~ Sun Tzu

[iamdrgonzo]

"Peace begins with a smile."

~Mother Teresa

[Wendy Summers]

Since it came up last night:

"Women should be obscene, not heard."

Groucho Marx

[TempestTS]

Machines don't understand sacrifice - neither do morons

[iamdrgonzo]

"Arbitrary rule has its basis, not in the strength of the state or the chief, but in the moral weakness of the individual, who submits almost without resistance to the domineering power."

~ Friedrich Hatzel

[iamdrgonzo]

"You can ignore reality, but you cannot ignore the consequences of reality."


~ Ayn Rand

[loren]

Artillery adds dignity to what would otherwise be a vulgar brawl.

Frederick the Great

[iamdrgonzo]

"War is a racket. It always has been. It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious. It is the only one international in scope. It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives. A racket is best described, I believe, as something that is not what it seems to the majority of the people. Only a small 'inside' group knows what it is about. It is conducted for the benefit of the very few, at the expense of the very many. Out of war a few people make huge fortunes."

~ Smedley Darlington Butler, USMC Major General and two time Medal of Honor recipient

[iamdrgonzo]

“... only the dead have seen the end of war.”


~ George Santayana —Soliloquies in England, Scribner's, 1922, p. 102

[Nicole Dupre]

"I'm the nicest goddamn dame that ever lived." Bette Davis

[Bobby Domino]

These quotes are from former Mayor of Washington, DC, Marion Barry. To give folks a little background, M. Barry, a 3-term mayor, was caught (and taped) smoking crack cocaine with a prostitute by the FBI in 1990. Despite his subsequent conviction & prison sentence, Barry was later re-elected to yet another term as mayor of Washington, DC. His quotes are priceless. Enjoy!!!!

"If you take out the killings, Washington actually has a very very low crime rate."

"First, it was not a strip bar, it was an erotic club. And second, what can I say? I'm a night owl."

"I am clearly more popular than Reagan. I am in my third term. Where's Reagan? Gone after two! Defeated by George Bush and Michael Dukakis no less.”

"The laws in this city are clearly racist. All laws are racist. The law of gravity is racist."

"I am making this trip to Africa because Washington is an international city, just like Tokyo, Nigeria or Israel. As mayor, I am an international symbol. Can you deny that to Africa?"

"People have criticized me because my security detail is larger than the president's. But you must ask yourself: are there more people who want to kill me than who want to kill the president? I can assure you there are."

"People blame me because these water mains break, but I ask you, if the water mains didn't break, would it be my responsibility to fix them then? WOULD IT!?!"

"I am a great mayor; I am an upstanding Christian man; I am an intelligent man; I am a deeply educated man; I am a humble man."

[Nautica]

Don't Compete-Create... Earl Nightingale

[Nautica]

Let me add...

"Do You REALLY Want It?!! YOU Gotta Go & Get Itttt!!!!!!"- Ricky Martin(The Cup Of Life)

"Good Things Come To Those Who Wait, But Only What's Left By Those Who Hustle"- Abraham Lincoln

[Quiet Reflections]

not the greatest but one I like
"Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made" ~Kant~

[iamdrgonzo]

"Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there
is no path and leave a trail."

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

[partlycloudy]

Al Pacino&#39;s Inspirational Speech - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WO4tIrjBDkk)

[iamdrgonzo]

"Be careful the environment you choose for it will shape you; be careful the friends you choose for you will become like them."

~ W. Clement Stone

[iamdrgonzo]

"There is no pleasure in having nothing to do; the fun is having lots to do and not doing it."

~ Andrew Jackson

[iamdrgonzo]

"History is not a burden on the memory but an illumination of the soul."

~ Lord Acton

[sukinsumtgurl]

don't argue with a stupid fuck. he will drag you down to his level and beat you with experience.

[Jericho]

No..I'm Sparticus!

[robertlouis]

No..I'm Sparticus!

Or, as my mum's Glaswegian cleaner, who, with a serious speech impediment, announced that she had been to see a film about Roman shlavesh revolting, called "Ashparagush."

Vegetables of the world unite, you have nothing to lose but your canes! :)

[Prospero]

Man is born free, but everywhere he is in trains.

[Jericho]

Man is born free, but everywhere he is in trains.


Cisterns of the world unite, you've nothing to lose but your chains!

[robertlouis]

Cisterns of the world unite, you've nothing to lose but your chains!

Tarzans of the world unite, you have nothing to lose but your Janes!

Should we stop this now before it's too late?

[MdR Dave]

Tarzans of the world unite, you have nothing to lose but your Janes!

Should we stop this now before it's too late?
Too late already.

"I have met the enemy, and he is us".

[iamdrgonzo]

"There is nothing worse than being ashamed of parsimony or poverty."

~ Titus Livius

[south ov da border]

This planet's just an overpopulated menatl hospital
and each zombie walking around constitues another obstacle

EYEDEA

[loren]

Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passion, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.
John Adams

[Prospero]

There are more things in heaven and earth, than are dreamt of in your philosophy

[Kayden Harley]

"My Pussy is on Fire"

[Scottish_Guy]

"A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life."

Charles Darwin

[Prospero]

"When you're up to your neck in shit, the only thing left to do is sing."
Samuel Beckett

[justafreak]

Vision? What do you know about my vision? My vision would turn your world upside down, tear asunder your illusions, and send the sanctuary of your own ignorance crashing down around you. Now ask yourself, Are you ready to see that vision?
~Huey Freeman

[southern81]

Let's face it; God has a big ego problem. Why do we always have to worship him?
Bill Maher

[southern81]

If Gods listened to the prayers of men, all men would quickly have perished: for they are forever praying for evil against one another.
Epicurus

[BellaBellucci]

"My Pussy is on Fire"

'They make a cream for that.' :lol:

~BB~

[Ben]

i ve always loved hearing Quotes from the past, b/c some still work in 2days time. i fig i would share some.

Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy--Benjamin Franklin

Remember upon the conduct of each depends the fate of all. --Alexander the Great

Cowards die many times before their actual deaths. -Julius Caesar (http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/j/juliuscaes378265.html)


William Burroughs: "Language is a virus from outer space."

Kathy Acker interviews William S. Burroughs - part 1/3 - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=axUc6Tt6SVQ)

[south ov da border]

"ship be sinkin"- Michael Ray Richardson

"the way I dunk on you is gonna look unorthadoxed"- Tracy Morgan

" me fail English, that's unpossible" - Ralph Wuggum

[Quinn]

"Who dares wins."

-SAS Motto

"Success is the child of audacity."

-Benjamin Disraeli

[Joop1980]

"All you need to be a politician is a good suit and a slogan about stopping crimes in the streets" (Frank Zappa)

[martin48]

The supreme irony of life is hardly anyone ever gets out of it alive. (Robert Heinlein)
Christ died for our sins. Dare we make his martyrdom meaningless by not committing them? (Jules Feiffer)

[buttslinger]

"Don't tell anybody about this" -Jesus

[Merkurie]

"No ticky -- no laundry"
Jack Nicholson, "The Departed"

[buttslinger]

"The real money's in the laundry" -Bobo

[Prospero]

bump

[flabbybody]

In the 70's I threw in the 90's.... In the 90's I threw in the 70's

Frank Tanana. 3 decade major league pitcher

[Prospero]

“One should see the world and see oneself as a scale with an equal balance of good and evil. When one does one good deed, the scale is tipped to the good – oneself and the world are saved. When one does one evil deed the scale is tipped to the bad – oneself and the world are destroyed.”

Moses Maimonides

[south ov da border]

still a good one

"A learning experience is one of those things that say, "You know that thing you just did? Don't do that."- Douglas Adams

[south ov da border]

"We are stuck with technology when what we really want is just stuff that works."- Douglas Adams

[LAGent4ts]

“She gave me a smile I could feel in my hip pocket.” Raymond Chandler
Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional. ~Chili Davis
Men do not quit playing because they grow old; they grow old because they quit playing. ~Oliver Wendell Holmes
My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me. Benjamin Disraeli

[south ov da border]

"everybody is a genius, but if you judge a fish by it's ability to climb a tree it will live it's whole life believing it is stupid" Albert Einstein...

[LAGent4ts]

"When they discover the center of the universe, a lot of people will be disappointed to discover they are not it". (http://www.quotesandpoem.com/quotes/showquotes/subject/arrogance/2207) Bernard Bailey

"Ignorance gives one a large range of probabilities" George Eliot

[buttslinger]

"Either this wallpaper goes or I do" -last words of Oscar Wilde.

[stan.smith]

"I have loved to the point of madness; That which is called madness, That which to me, is the only sensible way to love." -Francoise Sagan

[buttslinger]

"Let's see the Japanese build a better one of those" -Al Bundy

[maaarc]

Oderint Dum Metuant
Procul, O procul este profani

[martin48]

"We are stuck with technology when what we really want is just stuff that works."- Douglas Adams

And then there's his:

“There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable.
There is another theory which states that this has already happened.”

[Suckerpunch]

Freddie Mercury "Fuck Today It's Tomorrow"

[Jericho]

Who's the rat in a dress now, bitch?
:: Chaz Kramer

[TempestTS]

"Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding." -- Albert Einstein

[Willie Escalade]

My signature...

[buttslinger]

On the day you die it will be today -Buttslinger

I once trhought Buttslinger was a really cool name, unfortunately that was the same five minutes I signed up for this forum -Buttslinger, (aka Deek Rivers)

“Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.”
― Albert Einstein

[danthepoetman]

There's only 3 events for man: birth, life and death. He doesn't feel birth, he suffers in death and forgets to live. (La Bruyère)

Wit is the opposite of money. The less you have, the more you feel satisfied. (Voltaire)

We place our praises like we place our money, so that they come back with interests. (Jules Renard).

The cradle rocks above an abyss and common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack of light between two eternities of darkness. (Vladimir Nabokov)

Whoever knows how to die doesn't have any master. (Sully Prud'Homme)

Morality, thou deadly bane,
Thy tens o' thousands thou hast slain !
(Robert Burns)

[ImmerGeil]

In truth, there was only one Christian, and he died on the cross.


Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.

Man is the cruelest animal.


Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself.

Only sick music makes money today.

Battle not with monsters, lest ye become a monster, and if you gaze into the abyss, the abyss gazes also into you.

In Christianity neither morality nor religion come into contact with reality at any point.

The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.

The Christian resolution to find the world ugly and bad has made the world ugly and bad.

Out of life's school of war: What does not destroy me, makes me stronger.

It is nobler to declare oneself wrong than to insist on being right - especially when one is right.

[ImmerGeil]

There are no moral phenomena at all, but only a moral interpretation of phenomena.
There are people who want to make men's lives more difficult for no other reason than the chance it provides them afterwards to offer their prescription for alleviating life; their Christianity, for instance.





Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man's?



A great value of antiquity lies in the fact that its writings are the only ones that modern men still read with exactness.




After coming into contact with a religious man I always feel I must wash my hands.



Ah, women. They make the highs higher and the lows more frequent.



All truth is simple... is that not a double lie?



Every church is a stone on the grave of a god-man: it does not want him to rise up again under any circumstances.




Faith: not wanting to know what is true.




Fear is the mother of morality.




He who laughs best today, will also laughs last.




Hope in reality is the worst of all evils because it prolongs the torments of man.


I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time.




If a woman possesses manly virtues one should run away from her; and if she does not possess them she runs away from herself.




In heaven, all the interesting people are missing.



In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad.



The aphorism in which I am the first master among Germans, are the forms of "eternity"; my ambition is to say in ten sentences what everyone else says in a book - what everyone else does not say in a book.




Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs; he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter.




Success has always been a great liar.




The demand to be loved is the greatest of all arrogant presumptions.




The true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason he wants woman, as the most dangerous plaything.




To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.




Two great European narcotics, alcohol and Christianity.



We often refuse to accept an idea merely because the tone of voice in which it has been expressed is unsympathetic to us.



What? You seek something? You wish to multiply yourself tenfold, a hundredfold? You seek followers? Seek zeros!



Whoever feels predestined to see and not to believe will find all believers too noisy and pushy: he guards against them.



Without music, life would be a mistake.



Woman was God's second mistake.



He who has a Why? in life can tolerate almost any How?



Women are considered profound. Why? Because we never fathom their depths. But women aren't even shallow.



Our own opinions. The first opinion that occurs to us when we are suddenly asked about a matter is usually not our own, but only the customary one, appropriate to our caste, position, or parentage; our own opinions seldom swim near the surface.



Privilege of greatness. It is the privilege of greatness to grant supreme pleasure through trifling gifts.



It is not the struggle of opinions that has made history so violent, but rather the struggle of belief in opinions, that is, the struggle of convictions.




Women are considered deep - why? Because one can never discover any bottom to them. Women are not even shallow.





Enemies of truth. Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.




“The perfect woman is a higher type of human than the perfect man, and also something much more rare.”




Finally: woman! One-half of mankind is weak, typically sick, changeable, inconstant... she needs a religion of weakness that glorifies being weak, loving, and being humble as divine: or better, she makes the strong weak--she rules when she succeeds in overcoming the strong... Woman has always conspired with the types of decadence, the priests, against the "powerful", the "strong", the men




When thou goest to woman, take thy whip




Help yourself, then everyone will help you. Principle of brotherly love.




In our own wild nature we find the best recreation from our un-nature, from our spirituality



Not to perpetrate cowardice against one's own acts! Not to leave them in the lurch afterward! The bite of conscience is indecent.



If we have our own why in life, we shall get along with almost any how. Man does not strive for pleasure; only the Englishman does.



Whoever does not know how to lay his will into things, at least lays some meaning into them: that means, he has the faith that they already obey a will. (Principle of "faith".)



We hate lies and hypocrisy because our sense of honor is easily provoked. But the same hatred can arise from cowardice, since lies are forbidden by divine commandment: in that case, we are too cowardly to lie.




Are you genuine? Or merely an actor? A representative? Or that which is represented? In the end, perhaps you are merely a copy of an actor. Second question of conscience.



Man has created woman — out of what? Out of a rib of his god — of his "ideal."



All from the great Friedrich Nietzsche

[ImmerGeil]

In general admittedly the Wise of all times have always said the same thing, and the fools, that is to say the vast majority of all times, have always done the same thing, i.e. the opposite; and so it will remain in the future.


Mostly it is loss which teaches us about the worth of things.




The cheapest form of pride however is national pride. For it reveals in the one thus afflicted the lack of individual qualities of which he could be proud, while he would not otherwise reach for what he shares with so many millions. He who possesses significant personal merits will rather recognise the defects of his own nation, as he has them constantly before his eyes, most clearly. But that poor blighter who has nothing in the world of which he can be proud, latches onto the last means of being proud, the nation to which he belongs to. Thus he recovers and is now in gratitude ready to defend with hands and feet all errors and follies which are its own.


What now on the other hand makes people sociable is their incapacity to endure solitude and thus themselves.

With young girls Nature seems to have had in view what, in the language of the drama, is called a striking effect; as for a few years she dowers them with a wealth of beauty and is lavish in her gift of charm, at the expense of all the rest of their life; so that during those years they may capture the fantasy of some man to such a degree that he is hurried away into undertaking the honorable care of them, in some form or other, as long as they live--a step for which there would not appear to be any sufficient warranty if reason only directed his thoughts. Accordingly, Nature has equipped woman, as she does all her creatures, with the weapons and implements requisite for the safeguarding of her existence, and for just as long as it is necessary for her to have them. Here, as elsewhere, Nature proceeds with her usual economy; for just as the female ant, after fecundation, loses her wings, which are then superfluous, nay, actually a danger to the business of breeding; so, after giving birth to one or two children, a woman generally loses her beauty; probably, indeed, for similar reasons.


Life is short and truth works far and lives long: let us speak the truth.



Fame is something which must be won; honor, only something which must not be lost.

National character is only another name for the particular form which the littleness, perversity and baseness of mankind take in every country. Everyone mocks at other nations, and all are right.

Wealth is like sea-water; the more we drink, the thirstier we become.


Buying books would be a good thing if one could also buy the time to read them in: but as a rule the purchase of books is mistaken for the appropriation of their contents.


Only a male intellect clouded by the sexual drive could call the stunted, narrow-shouldered, broad-hipped and short-legged sex the fair sex.


In our monogamous part of the world, to marry means to halve one’s rights and double one’s duties.


Men are by nature merely indifferent to one another; but women are by nature enemies.


A man of intellect is like an artist who gives a concert without any help from anyone else, playing on a single instrument — a piano, say, which is a little orchestra in itself. Such a man is a little world in himself; and the effect produced by various instruments together, he produces single-handed, in the unity of his own consciousness. Like the piano, he has no place in a symphony; he is a soloist and performs by himself — in soli tude, it may be; or if in the company with other instruments, only as principal; or for setting the tone, as in singing.

In youth it is the outward aspect of things that most engages us; while in age, thought or reflection is the predominating quality of the mind. Hence, youth is the time for poetry, and age is more inclined to philosophy. In practical affairs it is the same: a man shapes his resolutions in youth more by the impression that the outward world makes upon him; whereas, when he is old, it is thought that determines his actions.

There are 80,000 prostitutes in London alone and what are they, if not bloody sacrifices on the altar of monogamy?

Because people have no thoughts to deal in, they deal cards, and try and win one another’s money. Idiots!


Monotheistic religions alone furnish the spectacle of religious wars, religious persecutions, heretical tribunals, that breaking of idols and destruction of images of the gods, that razing of Indian temples and Egyptian colossi, which had looked on the sun 3,000 years: just because a jealous god had said, 'Thou shalt make no graven image.'"


The two foes of human happiness are pain and boredom.

In Christian ethics ... animals are seen as mere things. They can therefore be used for vivisection, hunting, coarsing, bull-fights and horse-races and can be whipped to death as they struggle along with their heavy carts of stone. Shame on such a morality that fails to recognise the eternal essence that exists in every living thing and shines forth with inscrutable significance from all eyes that see the sun.


Every human perfection is linked to an error which it threatens to turn into.



All wanting comes from need, therefore from lack, therefore from suffering.


Arthur Schopenhauer

[danthepoetman]

Isn’t nothingness worth eternity? (E. M. Cioran)

[buttslinger]

For although in a certain sense and for light-minded persons non-existent things can be more easily and irresponsibly represented in words than existing things, for the serious and conscientious historian it is just the reverse. Nothing is harder, yet nothing is more necessary, than to speak of certain things whose existence is neither demonstrable nor probable. The very fact that serious and conscientious men treat them as existing things brings them a step closer to existence and to the possibility of being born.
Motto of the work written by Hesse, and attributed to an "Albertus Secundus"

[danthepoetman]

Most people can count their sheeps but not their friends. (Socrate)

[ImmerGeil]

Mockery of religion is one of the most essential things... one of the beginnings of human emancipation is the ability to laugh at authority.



Atheists have always argued that this world is all that we have, and that our duty is to one another to make the very most and best of it.



Religion is not provided to us by revelation, it doesn't come from the heavens, it doesn't come from the beyond, it doesn't come from the divine. It's man-made. And it shows. It shows very well - that religion is created, invented, imposed by a species half a chromosome away from the chimpanzee.



Europeans think Americans are fat, vulgar, greedy, stupid, ambitious and ignorant and so on. And they've taken as their own, as their representative American, someone (Michael Moore) who actually embodies all of those qualities.



People are frightened of death, and the central lie of all religion is that there’s a cure for this and an exception we’ve made in your own case: an eternal life offered if you make the right propitiations and the right abjections. Well, I’m sorry. I think that it's the height of immorality to lie to people like that. That’s why [religion] survives.”



And not scorning the three delightful children who result— who are everything to me and who are my only chance of even a glimpse of a second life, let alone an immortal one, and I’ll tell you something: if I was told to sacrifice them to prove my devotion to God, if I was told to do what all monotheists are told to do and admire the man who said, “Yes, I’ll gut my kid to show my love of God,” I’d say, “No. Fuck you."



Religion ends and philosophy begins, just as alchemy ends and chemistry begins and astrology ends, and astronomy begins.




The progress that's made ... in any argument or in any discussion is by confrontation. That's a dialectical fact. People say "oh let's have less heat and more light," fatuously. There's only one source of light. It happens to be heat.




The great Christopher Hitchens

[ImmerGeil]

The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum - even encourage the more critical and dissident views. That gives people the sense that there's free thinking going on, while all the time the presuppositions of the system are being reinforced by the limits put on the range of the debate.


It is only in folk tales, children's stories, and the journals of intellectual opinion that power is used wisely and well to destroy evil. The real world teaches very different lessons, and it takes willful and dedicated ignorance to fail to perceive them.

Most problems of teaching are not problems of growth but helping cultivate growth. As far as I know, and this is only from personal experience in teaching, I think about ninety percent of the problem in teaching, or maybe ninety-eight percent, is just to help the students get interested. Or what it usually amounts to is to not prevent them from being interested. Typically they come in interested, and the process of education is a way of driving that defect out of their minds. But if children['s] [...] normal interest is maintained or even aroused, they can do all kinds of things in ways we don't understand.


Of course, everybody says they're for peace. Hitler was for peace. Everybody is for peace. The question is: "What kind of peace?"

Non-violent resistance activities cannot succeed against an enemy that is able freely to use violence. That's pretty obvious. You can't have non-violent resistance against the Nazis in a concentration camp, to take an extreme case...

In certain intellectual circles in France, the very basis for discussion -- a minimal respect for facts and logic -- has been virtually abandoned.

If we don't believe in free expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.

Most problems of teaching are not problems of growth but helping cultivate growth. As far as I know, and this is only from personal experience in teaching, I think about ninety percent of the problem in teaching, or maybe ninety-eight percent, is just to help the students get interested. Or what it usually amounts to is to not prevent them from being interested. Typically they come in interested, and the process of education is a way of driving that defect out of their minds. But if children['s] [...] normal interest is maintained or even aroused, they can do all kinds of things in ways we don't understand.

Noam Chomsky

[Rolando]

It is not nice to FUCK with mother nature!

[Femboyurge]

ImmerGeil - I like your quotes very much (as well as your funny username). I don't know what to think about Chomsky, though. He doesn't seem to be that anarchistic that he pretends to be.

[Dino Velvet]

The Late, Great Robert Mitchum
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000053/bio#quotes

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-CI-RXd9ZZJc/TzSydz9Kp0I/AAAAAAAACww/SUKKsn_oBZM/s1600/cape%2Bfear%2B1962.jpg

[trish]

"I had no need of that hypothesis," spoken in reply by Pierre-Simone Laplace to Napolean's observation that Laplace's work on the system of the universe never once mentioned it's Creator.

[Jericho]

"My motherfucker is so cool, when he goes to bed, sheep count him"
Pinky - Heist

[danthepoetman]

“Someone has stolen the cork of my lunch”... WC Fields

[buttslinger]

Art is the lie that tells the truth -Picasso

[speedking59]

"There are no more barriers to cross. All I have in common with the uncontrollable and the insane, the vicious and the evil, all the mayhem I have caused and my utter indifference toward it, I have now surpassed. My pain is constant and sharp and I do not hope for a better world for anyone; in fact, I want my pain to be inflicted on others. I want no one to escape, but even after admitting this there is no catharsis, my punishment continues to elude me and I gain no deeper knowledge of myself; no new knowledge can be extracted from my telling."

[danthepoetman]

To The Stone-Cutters
Robinson Jeffers


Stone-cutters fighting time with marble, you foredefeated
Challengers of oblivion
Eat cynical earnings, knowing rock splits, records fall down,
The square-limbed Roman letters
Scale in the thaws, wear in the rain. The poet as well
Builds his monument mockingly;
For man will be blotted out, the blithe earth die, the brave sun
Die blind and blacken to the heart:
Yet stones have stood for a thousand years, and pained thoughts found
The honey of peace in old poems.

[ImmerGeil]

Ask not what hungangels can do for you - ask what you can do for hungangels.;)

[ImmerGeil]

One at a time people are still bearable, but when they form cliques, they start to get stupid. They fall into group stupidity. They’re so determined to become stupid as a group that they found clubs and pay membership dues. Zazen means taking leave of group stupidity.



It all begins when we say, “I”. Everything that follows is illusion.


Everybody talks about marrying for love, but isn’t it really just marrying for sex? In the end isn’t it really only about a penis and a vagina? Why doesn’t anybody simply say that he’s fallen in love with a vagina?


A man who understands nothing marries a woman who understands nothing, and everyone says, “Congratulations!” Now that’s something I cannot understand.


Everyone is talking about education, but what are we being educated to be? Ordinary citizens, that’s all.


Even funnier than watching the monkeys at the zoo is observing these humans on the loose.

[ImmerGeil]

What a shame to have been born a human being and to spend your whole life worrying. You should reach the point where you can be happy to have been born a human.


Birth, old age, sickness and death – we can’t fool around with these ultimate facts.


In a part of Manchuria, the carts are pulled by huge dogs. The driver hangs a piece of meat in front of the dog’s nose, and the dog runs like crazy to try to get at it. But of course he can’t. He’s only thrown his meat after the cart has finally reached its destination. Then in a single gulp, he swallows it down.
It’s exactly the same with people and their pay checks. Until the end of the month they run after the salary hanging in front of their noses. Once the salary is paid, they gulp it down, and they’re already off: running after the next payday.





The measure of man: you give him a little money and immediately he starts to move



Even university professors are only concerned with earning their daily bread.


Anyone who relies on his résumé is a failure.


Illusion means being unstable. Illusion means being controlled by the situation.


All beings are mistaken: we see as happiness that which leads to unhappiness, and weep over an unhappiness which isn’t unhappiness at all. We all know the child whose tears suddenly turn into laughter when you give him a cookie. What we living beings call happiness isn’t much more than that

As a human being, whatever you do, you should do it in a way that can’t be repeated a second time. What can be repeated is best left to the robots

When you observe insects in a tank, you see how they bite into each other and hold on with all their might. It must be amusing to observe from another corner of the universe how humans stock up on atomic and hydrogen bombs.


Acting clever while at the same time being the biggest idiots – that’s human fate.



People love it when things are complicated. Though things are complicated enough – even when we try to keep them as simple as possible – there are still some who make an effort to be especially complicated in everything they do.


People were idiots in the old days too. They wasted a fortune in gold and manpower building castles. And what was it all for? To bicker with each other. Today, people are even dumber. They build atomic and hydrogen bombs in order to erase humanity with one push of a button


How is it that humanity itself, unlike its science, hasn’t progressed in the least?


An idiot sits at the computer, a dimwit in the cockpit of the jet and a madman at the control panel of the atomic rockets – that’s the current problem.


Everyone talks about their own point of view, but who really cares? It’d be better if you just kept your mouth shut!


We’re always trying to promote our ego. The only question is: How many years can we keep it up? When we’re dead our body is just a piece of meat.



You cry out, “Peace, peace!”, but if you would only be quiet, it would be so much more peaceful. You say, “In my opinion...”, but it’s precisely when opinions and theories come into the picture that the bickering starts.


People only keep themselves busy to avoid boredom.


If you aren’t careful, you’ll start making a big fuss just to feed yourself. You’re constantly in a hurry, but why? Just to feed yourself. Chickens too are in a hurry when they peck at their food. But why? Only to be eaten by humans.


People are constantly out of breath – from running so quickly after their illusions.

The development of transportation has made the world smaller. Now we race around in cars, but where to anyway? To the arcade! We step on the gas, just to kill time.


You suffer because you don’t want to accept what has to be accepted




You’re worried about death? Don’t worry – you’ll die for sure


Kodo Sawaki(japanese Zen master)

[southern81]

"You can get much farther with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone." (http://www.great-quotes.com/quote/63983)
Al Capone (http://www.great-quotes.com/quotes/author/Al/Capone)

[dobie]

"What's that girl doing in the dugout?" Keith Hernandez

[Cecil Rhodes]

EAT ME .......... Anonymous

[ImmerGeil]

The more laws and order are made prominent, the more thieves and robbers there will be.




He who knows does not speak; he who speaks does not know.




To attain knowledge, add things every day.
To attain wisdom, remove things every day.





He who knows that enough is enough will always have enough.





Knowing others is intelligence;
knowing yourself is true wisdom.
Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power.




A leader is best when people barely know that he exists, not so good when people obey and acclaim him, worst when they despise him. Fail to honor people, They fail to honor you. But of a good leader, who talks little, when his work is done, his aims fulfilled, they will all say, "We did this ourselves."




A journey of a thousand miles started with a first step.


Laozi

[TempestTS]

Humanity must stop living "on the earth" and start living with Her - Tiokasin Ghosthorse

[Prospero]

Time exists to stop everything happening at once

[danthepoetman]

The Beautiful Poem
Richard Brautigan

I go to bed in Los Angeles thinking
about you

Pissing a few moments ago
I looked down at my penis
affectionately.

Knowing it has been inside
you twice today makes me
Feel beautiful.

3 A.M.
January 15, 1967

[danthepoetman]

Message
Harold Pinter

Jill. Fred phoned. He can't make tonight.
He said he'd call again, as soon as poss.
I said (on your behalf) OK, no sweat.
He said to tell you he was fine,
Only the crap, he said, you know, it sticks,
The crap you have to fight.
You're sometimes nothing but a walking shithouse.

I was well acquainted with the pong myself,
I told him, and I counselled calm.
Don't let the fuckers get you down,
Take the lid off the kettle a couple of minutes,
Go on the town, burn someone to death,
Find another tart, giver her some hammer,
Live while you're young, until it palls,
Kick the first blind man you meet in the balls.

Anyway he'll call again.

I'll be back in time for tea.

Your loving mother.

[ImmerGeil]

Everywhere means nowhere. When a person spends all his time in foreign travel, he ends by having many acquaintances, but no friends.


It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor.



No man can have a peaceful life who thinks too much about lengthening it.



Man is a reasoning animal.


Treat your inferiors as you would be treated by your betters.



No one is able to rule unless he is also able to be ruled.


A great fortune is a great slavery.


Seneca the Younger

Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness.

[Lovecox]

"I don't want to live forever."
Lemmy Kilmister - Motorhead

[southern81]

"In revenge and in love, woman is more barbarous than man"
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

[southern81]

Whoever has lived long enough to find out what life is, knows how deep a debt of gratitude we owe to Adam, the first great benefactor of our race. He brought death into the world."
Mark Twain

[southern81]

But who prays for Satan? Who, in eighteen centuries, has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner that needed it most?
Mark Twain

[Prospero]

riverrun, past Eve and Adam's, from swerve of shore to bend
of bay, brings us by a commodius vicus of recirculation back to
Howth Castle and Environs.

[danthepoetman]

Consummation of Grief
Charles Bukowski

I even hear the mountains
the way they laugh
up and down their blue sides
and down in the water
the fish cry
and the water
is their tears.
I listen to the water
on nights I drink away
and the sadness becomes so great
I hear it in my clock
it becomes knobs upon my dresser
it becomes paper on the floor
it becomes a shoehorn
a laundry ticket
it becomes
cigarette smoke
climbing a chapel of dark vines. . .
it matters little
very little love is not so bad
or very little life
what counts
is waiting on walls
I was born for this
I was born to hustle roses down the avenues of the dead.

[danthepoetman]

Lines Inscribed Upon A Cup Formed From A Skull
Lord Byron

Start not—nor deem my spirit fled:
In me behold the only skull
From which, unlike a living head,
Whatever flows is never dull.

I lived, I loved, I quaffed like thee;
I died: let earth my bones resign:
Fill up—thou canst not injure me;
The worm hath fouler lips than thine.

Better to hold the sparkling grape
Than nurse the earthworm's slimy brood,
And circle in the goblet's shape
The drink of gods than reptile's food.

Where once my wit, perchance, hath shone,
In aid of others' let me shine;
And when, alas! our brains are gone,
What nobler substitute than wine?

Quaff while thou canst; another race,
When thou and thine like me are sped,
May rescue thee from earth's embrace,
And rhyme and revel with the dead.

Why not—since through life's little day
Our heads such sad effects produce?
Redeemed from worms and wasting clay,
This chance is theirs to be of use.

[Wendy Summers]

“My hope still is to leave the world a bit better than when I got here.”
― Jim Henson

[Prospero]

"Man should not consider his material possessions his own, but as common to all, so as to share them without hesitation when others are in need."
Thomas Aquinas.

A thought GOP Vice Presidential nominee Paul Ryan should keep in mind now he is proclaiming Aquinas as his guiding light over his previous guru Ayn Rand.

[danthepoetman]

Gift
Czeslaw Milosz
(1911–2004)

A day so happy.
Fog lifted early. I worked in the garden.
Hummingbirds were stopping over the honeysuckle flowers.
There was no thing on earth I wanted to possess.
I knew no one worth my envying him.
Whatever evil I had suffered, I forgot.
To think that once I was the same man did not embarrass me.
In my body I felt no pain.
When straightening up, I saw blue sea and sails.

[Prospero]

ROSALIND
They say you are a melancholy fellow.

JAQUES
I am so. I do love it better than laughing.


ROSALIND
Those that are in extremity of either are abominable fellows and betray themselves to every modern censure worse than drunkards

As You Like it - Shakespeare

[Cecil Rhodes]

WHAT !!!!! No Mustard ????? ........ The Stomach from MEATBALLS 1979

[Rolando]

I only use "VIAGRA" when I am with 2 or more ladies! J. Nicholson

[ImmerGeil]

I need my sleep. I need about eight hours a day, and about ten at night.


It's all about money, not freedom, ya'll, okay? Nothing to do with fuckin' freedom. If you think you're free, try going somewhere without fucking money, okay?



All governments are lying cocksuckers.





Anybody can be a bum; all it takes is the right girl, the right bar and the right friends, and you are well… your buddies will see you off. They'll christen your dumpster for you.


They tell us "Rock'n'roll is the devil's music." Well, let's say we know that rock is the devil's music, and we know that it is, for sure … At least he fuckin' jams! If it's a choice between eternal Hell and good tunes, and eternal Heaven and New Kids on the fuckin' Block … I'm gonna be surfin' on the lake of fire, rockin' out.


This needs to be said: there never was a war. "How can you say that, Bill?" Well, a war is when two armies are fighting. So you can see, right there, there never was a war … People say to me, "Hey, Bill, the war made us feel better about ourselves." Really? What kind of people are these with such low self-esteem that they need a war to feel better about themselves? May I suggest, instead of a war to feel better about yourself, perhaps … sit-ups? Maybe a fruit cup? Eight glasses of water a day? on Persian Gulf War




I just have one of those faces. People come up to me and say, "What's wrong?" Nothing. "Well, it takes more energy to frown than it does to smile." Yeah, you know it takes more energy to point that out than it does to leave me alone?




You see, I think drugs have done some good things for us. I really do. And if you don't believe drugs have done good things for us, do me a favor. Go home tonight. Take all your albums, all your tapes and all your CDs and burn them. 'Cause you know what, the musicians that made all that great music that's enhanced your lives throughout the years were rrreal fucking high on drugs. The Beatles were so fucking high they let Ringo sing a few tunes.



I don't know what you all believe, and I don't really care … but you have to admit that beliefs are odd. Lots of Christians wear crosses around their necks … you really think when Jesus comes back, he ever wants to see a fucking cross?


I asked that question once ["Are there actually women in the world who do not like to give blowjobs?"] and a woman yelled "Yeah, you ever try it?" I said "Yeah. Almost broke my back." It's that one vertebra, I swear to god it's that close. I think that's the next thing to go in our next evolutionary step. Just a theory, and a fervent prayer! And now all the guys are going, "Honey, I have no idea what he's talking about," ...but guys, you know what I'm talking about. I can speak for any guy here tonight: guys, if you could blow yourselves? Ladies, you'd be here alone right now...watching an empty stage. ...Boy, my parents are proud of me! "Bill, honey, you still doing that suck-your-own-cock bit?" "Yeah, ma." "Good, baby, that's such a crowd-pleaser."



I was walking through Central Park, and I saw an old man smoking. Nothing makes a smoker happier than to see an old person smoking. This guy was ancient, bent over a walker, puffing away. I'm like, "Duuude, you're my hero! Guy your age smoking, man, it's great." He goes, "What? I'm 28."


I think it's interesting the two drugs that are legal, alcohol and cigarettes, two drugs that do absolutely nothing for you at all; and the drugs that might open your mind up to realize how badly you're being fucked every day of your life? … Those drugs are against the law. He-heh, coincidence?


Speaking of Satan, I was watching Rush Limbaugh the other day. Doesn't Rush Limbaugh remind you of one of those gay guys that like to lie in a tub while other guys pee on him?



You ever notice that everyone who believes in creationism looks really unevolved? Eyes real close together, big furry hands and feet. "I believe God created me in one day." Yeah, looks like he rushed it.


People suck, and that's my contention. I can prove it on a scratch paper and pen. Give me a fucking Etch-a-sketch, I'll do it in three minutes. The proof, the fact, the factorum. I'll show my work, case closed. I'm tired of this back-slapping "Aren't humanity neat?" bullshit. We're a virus with shoes, okay? That's all we are.



The whole image is that eternal suffering awaits anyone who questions God's infinite love. That's the message we're brought up with, isn't it? Believe or die! Thank you, forgiving Lord, for all those options.



[on New Kids on the Block, Rick Astley, George Michael, et al] People say to me, "Oh, Bill, leave them alone. They're so good, and so clean-cut, and they're such a good image for the children." Fuck that! When did mediocrity and banality become a good image for your children? I want my children listening to people who fucking rocked! I don't care if they died in pools of their own vomit! I want someone who plays from his fucking heart! "Mommy, the man Bill told me to listen to has a blood bubble on his nose." SHUT UP AND LISTEN TO HIM PLAY!


Bill Hicks

[speedking59]

"A Profound Hatred Of Man" - Shai Hulud

If these hands would only kill.
They'd cleanse the world with its own blood.
They'd cleanse the world, if these hands would only kill.
These hand should cleanse your soul of the lust and the greed of this world.
And they call me a fool as they do so well.
Destroy the morality none have known for so long if ever at all
And I would lay down my life to birth a new generation of a righteous culture.
To a people I could proudly love and cherish.
For that's all I've ever asked for and been deprived of.
Not a tear for those of flesh
Not a stayed hand for a world that prostitutes itself.
Not a minute more of degeneration.
Words cannot express my disappointment.
Words cannot express my disapproval.
So I hate.
I hate a world that's capable of triumph.
Do I stand idly by and let this world disintegrate.
This world will pass away, and my emotions with it.
Why should I strive for acceptance and peace of mind.
A Profound Hatred of Man