Your Favorite Quotes

[thomez]

I wrote this down when I was a kid, something I made up and have always thought about.

"A life lived in fear of an inevitable death is really a life not lived at all."


others

"We must all hang together or we will assuredly all hang separately." - Ben Franklin

"Religion is the opiate of the masses' - Karl Marx

plus some of those from Pub

[avsp]

Originally Posted by thomez

I imagine that was said in gesture ... in Africa... a few million years ago

In that case doesnt it become who first said "Tell you what. Why dont you lie on your back & I'll just, ..., "?

"For everything that lives is holy, life delights in life" - William Blake America: a prophecy


"Everybody should believe in something; I believe I'll have another drink." - Unknown author

"Everybody should believe in something: we all believe its your round, you tight b*stard" - Nearly everyone who ever went drinking with Pete Buckley

[Stylerod]

Reagan has some funny, but thoughtful, comments

It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first.
Ronald Reagan


No government ever voluntarily reduces itself in size. Government programs, once launched, never disappear. Actually, a government bureau is the nearest thing to eternal life we'll ever see on this earth!
Ronald Reagan

[DosEquis]

Originally Posted by Stylerod

Reagan has some funny, but thoughtful, comments

The age joke that he made in that debate with Dukakis made me giggle a little bit.

[Publius]

Whether you liked him as a President or not, there is no denying that Reagan had a wicked sense of humor.

[Stylerod]

Originally Posted by DosEquis

The age joke that he made in that debate with Dukakis made me giggle a little bit.

There was one that he said before a bunch of reporters (I can't even remember what the issue was anymore)

"Before I refuse to answer your questions, I have a statement I'd like to read"

[WickedLou9]

These are a little scary.

Benito Mussolini Quotes:
Fascism should more appropriately be called Corporatism because it is a merger of state and corporate power.

The function of a citizen and a soldier are inseparable.


The truth is that men are tired of liberty.

War alone brings up to their highest tension all human energies and imposes the stamp of nobility upon the peoples who have the courage to make it.


War is to man what maternity is to a woman. From a philosophical and doctrinal viewpoint, I do not believe in perpetual peace.


We become strong, I feel, when we have no friends upon whom to lean, or to look to for moral guidance.

[RMNIXON]

Originally Posted by Stylerod

No government ever voluntarily reduces itself in size. Government programs, once launched, never disappear. Actually, a government bureau is the nearest thing to eternal life we'll ever see on this earth!
Ronald Reagan

And the sad part is the people who think that is just great!

[avsp]

Darling you must make sure - & this is terribly important, its really the only thing I would stress - you must make sure that your toenails are painted before you go into hospital. Theres nothing worse darling, than giving birth & then staring down to be confronted with an awful set of unpainted toes
Joan Ravenscroft

[Stylerod]

Originally Posted by avsp

Darling you must make sure - & this is terribly important, its really the only thing I would stress - you must make sure that your toenails are painted before you go into hospital. Theres nothing worse darling, than giving birth & then staring down to be confronted with an awful set of unpainted toes
Joan Ravenscroft

[David Octavius]

"......and where they make a desert, they call it peace."
-- Tacitus

[jimeigh]

“Do not stand in the middle, go to the right or to the left.”
- Johnny Rotten

"There are two sides to every issue: one side is right and the other is wrong, but the middle is always evil."
- Ayn Rand

[IminWonderland]

New knowledge is the most valuable commodity on earth. The more truth we have to work with, the richer we become.
-Kurt Vonnegut, Breakfast of Champions

We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful what we pretend to be.
-Kurt Vonnegut, Mother Night

In heaven all the interesting people are missing.
Friedrich Nietzsche

"I saw myself sitting in the crotch of this fig tree, starving to death, just because I couldn't make up my mind which of the figs I would choose. I wanted each and every one of them, but choosing one meant losing all the rest, and, as I sat there, unable to decide, the figs began to wrinkle and go black, and, one by one, they plopped to the ground at my feet. "
-Sylva Plath, The Bell Jar

[IminWonderland]

The number one reason people hate America; the number one reason is because of our religion. Americans worship money, we worship money. Separate God from school, separate God from work, separate God from government, but on your money it says in God we trust. All my life I've been looking for God and He's right in my pocket. Americans worship money, and we all go to the same church the church of ATM, everywhere you look there's a new branch popping up... remind you about how much money you got and how much money you don't got. And if you got less than twenty dollars the machine won't even talk to you. The machine is like, "You better go see a teller." You ever go to a teller and try to take out eight dollars and fifty cents? Oh, it's disgusting... oh man, you gotta wait on that long ass line, people doing real transactions in front of you, you get on to the fucking front you fill out your form, eight fifty. The fucking teller looks at it, she look at you, she looks at the check, she don't even take the money out of the drawer, she take it out of her pocket, "Here you go, get outta here." And here's something, man. Drugs are illegal but ATM machines are open twenty-four hours a day. Twenty-four hours a day. For who? Who the fuck is it open for? Have you ever taken out three hundred dollars at four o'clock in the morning for something positive? Shit, when you press that machine at four o'clock in the morning, I think a psychiatrist should pop up on the screen an go "C'mon man, save your money, man. Don't buy drugs, buy some rims. They spinning, nigger, they spinning, they spinning, nigger, they spinning." Americans worship money. Shit, you know why banks are closed on Sunday? Cos if they wasn't church would be empty
-Chris Rock

[jimeigh]

Originally Posted by IminWonderland

"I saw myself sitting in the crotch of this fig tree, starving to death, just because I couldn't make up my mind which of the figs I would choose. I wanted each and every one of them, but choosing one meant losing all the rest, and, as I sat there, unable to decide, the figs began to wrinkle and go black, and, one by one, they plopped to the ground at my feet. "
-Sylva Plath, [I

The Bell Jar[/i]

sylvia plath is the shit, i dissected the fuck out of her poem "daddy" for a class once. good stuff.

[David Octavius]

"sometimes rational decisions aren't sensible!" - Ian Stewart

[David Octavius]

"You know what they say about Chicago. If you don't like the weather, wait fifteen minutes."


"If Casey Stengel were alive today, he'd be spinning in his grave."


- Ralph Kiner

[kinggovernor]

"plug into the moment and make it electric"
-Darrell Talley

[David Octavius]

Who Are the Best Keepers of the People's Liberties?

National Gazette, December 22, 1792

Republican. — The people themselves. The sacred trust can be no where so safe as in the hands most interested in preserving it.


Anti-republican. — The people are stupid, suspicious, licentious. They cannot safely trust themselves. When they have established government they should think of nothing but obedience, leaving the care of their liberties to their wiser rulers.


Republican. — Although all men are born free, and all nations might be so, yet too true it is, that slavery has been the general lot of the human race. Ignorant — they have been cheated; asleep — they have been surprized; divided — the yoke has been forced upon them. But what is the lesson? That because the people may betray themselves, they ought to give themselves up, blindfold, to those who have an interest in betraying them? Rather conclude that the people ought to be enlightened, to be awakened, to be united, that after establishing a government they should watch over it, as well as obey it.


Anti-republican. — You look at the surface only, where errors float, instead of fathoming the depths where truth lies hid. It is not the government that is disposed to fly off from the people; but the people that are ever ready to fly off from the government. Rather say then, enlighten the government, warn it to be vigilant, enrich it with influence, arm it with force, and to the people never pronounce but two words — Submission and Confidence.


Republican. — The centrifugal tendency then is in the people, not in the government, and the secret art lies in restraining the tendency, by augmenting the attractive principle of the government with all the weight that can be added to it. What a perversion of the natural order of things! to make power the primary and central object of the social system, and Liberty but its satellite.


Anti-republican. — The science of the stars can never instruct you in the mysteries of government. Wonderful as it may seem, the more you increase the attractive force of power, the more you enlarge the sphere of liberty; the more you make government independent and hostile towards the people, the better security you provide for their rights and interests. Hence the wisdom of the theory, which, after limiting the share of the people to a third of the government, and lessening the influence of that share by the mode and term of delegating it, establishes two grand hereditary orders, with feelings, habits, interests, and prerogatives all inveter-ately hostile to the rights and interests of the people, yet by a mysterious operation all combining to fortify the people in both.


Republican. — Mysterious indeed! But mysteries belong to religion, not to government; to the ways of the Almighty, not to the works of man. And in religion itself there is nothing mysterious to its author; the mystery lies in the dimness of the human sight. So in the institutions of man let there be no mystery, unless for those inferior beings endowed with a ray perhaps of the twilight vouchsafed to the first order of terrestrial creation.


Anti-republican. — You are destitute, I perceive, of every quality of a good citizen, or rather of a good subject. You have neither the light of faith nor the spirit of obedience. I denounce you to the government as an accomplice of atheism and anarchy.


Republican. — And I forbear to denounce you to the people, though a blasphemer of their rights and an idolater of tyranny. Liberty disdains to persecute.

-- James Madison

[SoFlaJDM]

i like:

"the insurgency is in its last throes"