Well, I really enjoy reading quotes from all different people and concerning all different types of ideas.

So, here are the rules:

2 quotes per post
no more than 1 post in a row
can be about anything
don't repeat quotes

So, I'll start:
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"The basis of optimism is sheer terror. "
~Oscar Wilde

"Death is more universal than life; everyone dies but not everyone lives. "
~A. Sachs

"The more I study the world, the more I am convinced of the inability of brute force to create anything durable"
...Napoleon Bonaparte

"Many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices"
... William James

Wingfoot

If you make people think they're thinking, they'll love you; But if you really make them think, they'll hate you.
Don Marquis

The true conservative is the man who has a real concern for injustices and takes thought against the day of reckoning.
Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882 - 1945), Speech in Syracuse, NY Sep. 29, 1936

"Dogs are gonna take over the world. It's a known fact for those who believe it, kinda like the Bible."
-Tre Cool of Green Day

Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half.
~Gore Vidal

Not even God is wise enough.- Yoruban proverb

Me and my nation against the world
Me and my clan against my nation
Me and my family against my clan
Me and my brother against my family
Me against my brother. -Somali proverb

There are some funny and insightful Gikuyu proverbs Koigi wa Wamwere puts in his books, if I find them I'm putting them in this post.

"Why yes, a bulletproof vest"
~Murderer James Rodge, On his final request before the fireing squad.

Don't be a fool and die for your country. Let the other sonofabitch die for his.
~George Patton

"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
~ Ben Franklin


Five thousand balloons, capable of raising two men each, could not cost more than five ships of the line; and where is the prince who can afford so to cover his country with troops for its defense as that 10,000 men descending from the clouds might not in many places do an infinite deal of mischief before a force could be brought together to repel them?

~ Ben Franklin

Who dares wins
- SAS moto

I told you I was ill
- Spike Milligan's grave

Wingfoot

Jesus loves you! Everyone else thinks you're an arsehole

"If you're not ready to die for it, put the word 'freedom' out of your vocabulary." -- Malcolm X

"When the search for truth is confused with political advocacy, the pursuit of knowledge is reduced to the quest for power." -- Alston Chase

It's God's job to forgive Bin Laden... It's our job to arrange the meeting -USMC

Politicians and diapers should both be changed regularly and for the same reason.

"We win because I am the best"
Jose Mourinho

"At the center of non-violence stands the principal of love"
Martin Luther King Jr

Wingfoot

"It's as if a guy drove me into a ditch and said, 'Don't worry, I know how to drive us out of this.'"
-Jon Stewart, on President Bush

"The world is a tragedy to those who feel, but a comedy to those who think."
-Horace Walpole

"We're not going to play the mainstream, we're going to hijack it"
- Zach de la Rocha, Rage Against the Machine

"I like to start of slow, take it easy in the middle, and wind down towards the end"
- Dylan Moran

Wingfoot

Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.
~Oscar Wilde

Many that live deserve death. And some die that deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then be not too eager to deal out death in the name of justice, fearing for your own safety. Even the wise cannot see all ends.
~J. R. R. Tolkien

"I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work."
Thomas Edison


"The brave don't live forever, but the cautious don't live at all."
Timothy Luce

I thought this was good.

"He (Arlin Specter) is a moderate conservitive. Which is to say a conservitive which is sick, or knows someone who is."
~Jon Stewart

"You're looking sharper than a page of Oscar Wilde witicisms, rolled into a cone, sprinkled with lemon juice, and jabbed into someone's eye"

....Ace Rimmer in Red Dwarf

Wingfoot

"What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty or democracy?"
~Mahatma Gandhi

I'm definitely going to have to use that quote, Delta. What for, I don't know... but I'm sure I'll find something.

Yeah, I was reading it and was like "whoa, this could come up in a debate."

'Kay, I saw a quote the other day, I don't remember where, that said something to the effect of "If you use violence to solve one problem today, tomorrow you will find thousands of problems solveable by violence." Does anyone happen to be familar with it, so that I could find the exact quote? :ermm:

Do you remember who said it?

No. <_<

Well, you're no help.

Check out this site:
http://rds.yahoo.com/S=2766679/K=Quotes+ab...s/violence.html

See if you see anything like it/to your likeing.

I know, I haven't given you very much to go on, eh? :no:

Normally, what I'd do is google what part of the quote you know to be exact in quotation marks. But yeah, try that for a while.


Can't say I know it off the top of my head though.

Haven't found it yet, although I found this:

- Ronald Reagan

Hmm, I know a few Reagan lovers that would benifit from hearing that Nevin.

"Wine has the effect of making man mistake thoughts for words"

"We are at least 70% water, and the prohibitionists are still not satisfied"

On beermats in a bar in my town

Wingfoot

There is one specticale grander than the sea. That is the sky. There is one specticale grander than the sky. That is the soul.

~Victor Hugo

" War is not about who is right, but who is left."
-Barone Russell

"Discover.Vary.Diverse.Publish.Explore."

-Orson Scott Card

"When someone strives for the hand of a women, he has at most a dozen rivals. When a man strives for glory, he has all of history as his rival"
-[Unknown to me]

"The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of a mature man is that he wants to live humbly for one" - Wilhelm Stekel

"Statistics is the art of lying by means of figures." - Wilhelm Stekel

"Fervid atheism is usually a screen for repressed religion." - Wilhelm Stekel

"Isn't it funny? A ringing phone has to be answered. It could be anyone on the other end; but a ringing phone has to be answered."

From the movie Phone Booth

A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler whom they consider god-fearing and pious. On the other hand, they do less easily move against him, believing that he has the gods on his side.


-- Aristotle

The beauty of the democratic systems of thought control, as contrasted with their clumsy totalitarian counterparts, is that they operate by subtly establishing on a voluntary basis - aided by the force of nationalism and media control by substantial interests - presuppositions that set the limits of debate, rather than by imposing beliefs with a bludgeon.


-- Noam Chomsky

I am somehow less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein's brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops.

-Stephen Jay Gould

What we call progress has been a painful but continuous march in the direction of limiting authority and the power of government and increasing the rights and liberties of the individual, of the masses. It has been a struggle that has taken thousands of years. The reason that it took such a long time-and is not ended yet-is because people did not know what the real trouble was: they fought against this and for that, they changed kings and formed new governments, they put out one ruler only to set up another, they drove away a "foreign" oppressor only to suffer the yoke of a native one, they abolished one form of tyranny, such as the Tsars, and submitted to that of a party dictatorship, and always and ever they shed their blood and heroically sacrificed their lives in the hope of securing liberty and welfare.

-Alexander Berkman

To continue our trend of deeply philosophical quotes:


" Snootch to the motherf**kin' nootch!"
~ Jay, from Dogma

Oh yeah...

Harold: [awakening from dream after being hit on head] What the hell are you doing? Gawd!
Kumar: You been out cold for the past half an hour. I figured maybe if I did some gay shit, you'd wake up.
Harold: If you did some gay shit? What kinda - where are we? Didn't we come here on a cheetah? Where's the cheetah?
Kumar: It ran away. Listen, forget about the cheetah, okay?

-Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle

Harold: Did Doogie Howser just steal my f**king car?
Kumar: Yes... I think he did.
Harold: Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!

-Same movie.

"The Union is a hell of a good way to see an expensive act cheap"

Jasper Carrott on the Oxford Union