NationStates Jolt Archive

"To those of this Godless ideology, neither vows, promises, oaths, nor
written agreements mean a thing. Their philosophy is to lie, cheat, steal, or kill
so long as it furthers the aim and goal of Communism- which is world domination." - Anastasio Somoza Debayle

“The only security men can have for their political liberty, consists in keeping their money in their own pockets. - Lysander Spooner

“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

“Government is not reason; it is not eloquent; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master.” - George Washington

“Democracies have ever been spectacles of turbulence and contention; have ever been found incompatible with personal security or the rights of property; and have in general been as short in their lives as they have been violent in their deaths.” - James Madison

“The lessons of paternalism ought to be unlearned and the better lesson taught that while the people should patriotically and cheerfully support their government, its functions do not include the support of the people.” - Grover Cleveland

“Collecting more taxes than is absolutely necessary is legalized robbery.” - Calvin Coolidge

“The nation which forgets its defenders will be itself forgotten.” - Calvin Coolidge

“No matter how worthy the cause, it is robbery, theft, and injustice to confiscate the property of one person and give it to another to whom it does not belong.” - Walter Williams

“If some peoples pretend that history or geography gives them the right to subjugate other races, nations, or peoples, there can be no peace.” - Ludwig von Mises

“The philosophy of protectionism is a philosophy of war.” - Ludwig von Mises

“Whoever wants peace among nations must seek to limit the state and its influence most strictly.” - Ludwig von Mises

“Whoever wishes peace among peoples must fight statism.” - Ludwig von Mises

“Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.” - Winston Churchill

“Some regard private enterprise as if it were a predatory tiger to be shot. Others look upon it as a cow that they can milk. Only a handful see it for what it really is - the strong horse that pulls the whole cart.” - Winston Churchill

“The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.” - Winston Churchill

“To us, Communism is as bad as imperialism.” - Jomo Kenyatta

“Don’t be fooled into looking to Communism for food.” - Jomo Kenyatta

“A good politician is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar.” H.L. Mencken

“Whether it’s Marxism, whether it’s Fascism, whether it’s Nazism, they’re all the same. There’s no difference. They are all one-party dictatorships, and their main function in life is to stay in power — that’s all; you just stay in power.” - Ian Smith

“A vote is like a rifle; its usefulness depends upon the character of the user.” - Theodore Roosevelt

“I don't pity any man who does hard work worth doing. I admire him. I pity the creature who does not work, at whichever end of the social scale he may regard himself as being.” - Theodore Roosevelt

“Don't fight a battle if you don't gain anything by winning.” - Erwin Rommel

“In war there is no substitute for victory.” - Douglas MacArthur

“It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it.” - Douglas MacArthur

“Better to fight for something than live for nothing.” - George Patton

“No bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country.” - George Patton

"The judges of this state may go right ahead and convict us for our actions at that time, but History, acting as the goddess of a higher truth and a higher justice, will one day smilingly tear up this verdict, acquitting us of all guilt and blame." - Adolf Hitler

"Only those who are fit to live are not afraid to die" Douglas MacArthur

The two in my signature, plus a few more:

"Political Freedom without economic equality is a pretense, a fraud, a lie; and the workers want no lying." - Mikhail Bakunin

"I recognize no infallible authority, even in special questions; consequently, whatever respect I may have for the honesty and the sincerity of such or such an individual, I have no absolute faith in any person. Such a faith would be fatal to my reason, to my liberty, and even to the success of my undertakings; it would immediately transform me into a stupid slave, an instrument of the will and interests of others." - Mikhail Bakunin

"A jealous lover of human liberty, deeming it the absolute condition of all that we admire and respect in humanity, I reverse the phrase of Voltaire, and say that, if God really existed, it would be necessary to abolish him." - Mikhail Bakunin

"I leave Sisyphus at the foot of the mountain! One always finds one's burden again. But Sisyphus teaches the higher fidelity that negates the gods and raises rocks. He too concludes that all is well. This universe henceforth without a master seems to him neither sterile nor futile. Each atom of that stone, each mineral flake of that night filled mountain, in itself forms a world. The struggle itself toward the heights is enough to fill a man's heart. One must imagine Sisyphus happy." - Albert Camus

"Personally I'm in favor of democracy, which means that the central institutions in the society have to be under popular control. Now, under capitalism we can't have democracy by definition. Capitalism is a system in which the central institutions of society are in principle under autocratic control. Thus, a corporation or an industry is, if we were to think of it in political terms, fascist; that is, it has tight control at the top and strict obedience has to be established at every level -- there's a little bargaining, a little give and take, but the line of authority is perfectly straightforward. Just as I'm opposed to political fascism, I'm opposed to economic fascism. I think that until major institutions of society are under the popular control of participants and communities, it's pointless to talk about democracy." - Noam Chomsky

"Every day I become more convinced, there is no doubt in my mind, and as many intellectuals have said, that it is necessary to transcend capitalism. But capitalism can’t be transcended from with capitalism itself, but through socialism, true socialism, with equality and justice. But I’m also convinced that it is possible to do it under democracy, but not in the type of democracy being imposed from Washington." - Hugo Chávez

"Freedom is always the freedom of dissenters." - Rosa Luxemburg

"There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so." - William Shakespeare, Hamlet

"I could be bounded in a nutshell, and count myself a king of infinite space, were it not that I have bad dreams." - William Shakespeare, Hamlet

"There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy." - William Shakespeare, Hamlet

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"Don't try to be a great man. Just be a man, and let nature take it's course."


Zephram Cochrane

"Ian Smith was a dick"

- Dobbsworld.

Religion is the opiate of the masses - Marx.

"To those of this Godless ideology, neither vows, promises, oaths, nor
written agreements mean a thing. Their philosophy is to lie, cheat, steal, or kill
so long as it furthers the aim and goal of Communism- which is world domination." - Anastasio Somoza Debayle

I was unaware of that myself - my, I have a sudden urge to beat up old women with lead pipes and take their purses to further the goal of world revolution. And find a way to break a promise while i'm at it. How strange!

"Ian Smith was a dick"

- Dobbsworld.

:p

At what point shall we expect the approach of danger? By what means shall we fortify against it? Shall we expect some transatlantic military giant, to step the Ocean, and crush us at a blow? Never! All the armies of Europe, Asia and Africa combined, with all the treasure of the earth (our own excepted) in their military chest; with a Buonaparte for a commander, could not by force, take a drink from the Ohio, or make a track on the Blue Ridge, in a trial of a thousand years. At what point, then, is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us it must spring up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide.

He that lies down with dogs, shall rise up with fleas.

A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that everyone believes he has the biggest piece.

- I have seen three emperors in their nakedness, and the sight was not inspiring.

- There is a Providence that protects idiots, drunkards, children and the United States of America.

He who joyfully marches to music rank and file, has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would surely suffice. This disgrace to civilization should be done away with at once. Heroism at command, how violently I hate all this, how despicable and ignoble war is; I would rather be torn to shreds than be a part of so base an action. It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.

I'll probably think of more later...

I was unaware of that myself - my, I have a sudden urge to beat up old women with lead pipes and take their purses to further the goal of world revolution. And find a way to break a promise while i'm at it. How strange!

Don't post spammy shit, please.

Dorothy Parker: "If all these sweet young things [coeds] were laid end to end, I wouldn't be surprised."

Don't post spammy shit, please.

Well, sorry, I found the quote dumb.

Well, sorry, I found the quote dumb.

It was indeed.

"The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it."
-George Bernard Shaw

"Never judge a book by its movie."
-J.W. Eagan

"I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones."
-Albert Einstein

"War is a way of shattering to pieces, or pouring into the stratosphere, or sinking in the depths of the sea, materials which might otherwise be used to make the masses too comfortable, and hence, in the long run, too intelligent."
-George Orwell

"It is not these well-fed long-haired men that I fear, but the pale and the hungry-looking."
-Julius Caesar

"Cynics regarded everybody as equally corrupt... Idealists regarded everybody as equally corrupt, except themselves."
-Robert Anton Wilson

It tasted like ghetto romance.

The only reason some people get lost in thought is because it's unfamiliar territory

All those who suffer in the world do so because of their desire for their own happiness. All those happy in the world are so because of their desire for the happiness of others.


"I had a bag of Fritos, but these were Texas Grilled Fritos. These Fritos had grill marks on them. Hell yeah. Reminds me of summertime, when we used to fire up the barbecue and throw down some Fritos. I can still see my dad with the apron on. 'Better flip that Frito Dad, you know how I like mine: with grill marks.'"

"The flap on the inside of the vending machine is a great invention. Before that, it was hard times for the vending machine owner. 'Hey, which candy bar are you getting?' 'That one...and every one on the bottom row!'"

"Sometimes the hotel I stay at has a minibar. A minibar is a machine that makes everything... expensive. And when I take something out of the minibar, I always fathom that I'm gonna replace it before they can check me off and charge me. But they make that shit impossible to replace. I go to the store, 'Do you have Coke in a glass harmonica? Do you have individually wrapped cashews?'"

"This shirt is dry clean only, which means it's dirty."

"They said, 'You can swear on XM Radio.' No sh*t, cuz nobody can hear it. You can swear in the woods too."

"If I had nine of my fingers missing I wouldn't type any slower."

"See, that's how I knew he wasn't a dreamer, 'cause the day I give up my dreams is the day I have strategic grill locations. A dreamer has a philosophy: the entire grill is hot."

This would be the ultimate full circle slap in the face of the United States... What if this happens, because look we are the greatest country on Earth but we get a little cocky from time to time. If we don't like the way your country's doing its business, we'll kick the door in, "Hey, hey knock it off, you're bugging the world, cut it out. And if you don't listen to us we'll throw all kinds of weapons and crazy sh*t at cha', which we always apologise about using twenty or thirty years later. Listen we're really sorry about that, we were a little drunk at the time and we got a little rambunchious, the bomb we didn't know it was going to do that, we thought it was a contained blast and we didn't know it would make everything blown to smitherines. And you were being kind of a bitch. Country! {snap} Country! {snap} you are being kind of a bitch. Are we cool now and mind if we leave like three or four thousand troops and maybe some supplies here do ya, DO YA MIND. You wouldn't want us to get drunk again would ya! High five us, photo opt {pla-kink camera sound}. We get a little cocky....what if when the mothership comes over middle America and we are all sitting watching TV, all the news crews are just focusing on there watching, right, what if one of the hatches finally open, out of the UFOs come thousands of 100 foot Native American Indians. We're gonna be watching like 'F*ck those are huge Indians, please tell me they aren't giant Indians, Goddamnit they're huge Indians, alright good game America, we had some fun huh.' Hi Giant Indians, we did some sh*t and ahhh..... Could you show us how to make giant corn!

And I'm usually saying things like "I'd want to be part of a frat, not a sorority. Frats actually do things that I'd want to do like steal road signs and objectify women."

"Immorality: the morality of those who are having more fun." - H.L. Mencken

"In Christianity neither morality nor religion come into contact with reality at any point."- Friedrich Nietzsche

"The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd; indeed in view of the silliness of the majority of mankind, a widespread belief is more likely to be foolish than sensible." -Bertrand Russell

"Youth ages, immaturity is outgrown, ignorance can be educated, and drunkenness sobered- but STUPID lasts forever."- Aristophanes

"All national institutions of churches, whether Jewish, Christian, or Turkish, appear to me no other than human inventions, set up to terrify and enslave mankind, and monopolize power and profit." -Thomas Paine

"I can win an argument on any topic, against any opponent. People know this, and steer clear of me at parties. Often, as a sign of their great respect, they don't even invite me." -Dave Barry

"If one attempts to assign to religion its place in man's evolution, it seems not so much to be a lasting acquisition, as a parallel to the neurosis which the civilized individual must pass through on his way from childhood to maturity" -Sigmund Freud

"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." -Albert Einstein

"I think computer viruses should count as life. I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We've created life in our own image." -Stephen Hawking

"With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion." -Steven Weinberg

"Those who say religion has nothing to do with politics do not know what religion is." -Mahatma Gandhi

"For seventeen hundred years the Christian sect has done nothing but harm" -Voltaire

"Religion has caused more harm than any other idea since the beginning of time. There's nothing good I can say about it. People use it as a crutch." -Larry Flynt

"If we don't succeed, we run the risk of failure" - George Bush (Jr.)

*edits*

And a half-decent one :

"Nobody can hurt you unless you let them" - Ghandi.

"Non illegitamati carborundum"-Inscription over a Roman grave
"I pee in the sink :) "-Lunatic Goofballs
"I can't believe I ate the whole thing"-Homer Simpson
"So long and thanks for all the fish"-A dolphin
"Don't Panic"-The cover of The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy

"If God existed, it would be necessary to abolish him." -- Mikhail Bakunin

"Property is theft." -- Pierre Proudhon

"Religious suffering is, at one and the same time, the expression of real suffering and a protest against real suffering. Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people." -- Karl Marx

"Capitalism is the extraordinary belief that the nastiest of men, for
the nastiest of reasons, will somehow work for the benefit of us all." -- John Maynard Keynes

“This crime called blasphemy was invented by priests, for the purpose of defending doctrines not able to take care of themselves.” - Robert G. Ingersoll

"I think popular music in this country is one of the few things in the twentieth century that have made giant strides in reverse." -- Bing Crosby (1904-1977)

"Wagner's music is not as bad as it sounds." -- Mark Twain

"Why of course the common people don't want war... But, after all, it is the leaders of the country who determine the policy and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in every country" - Hermann Goering

"If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State." - Joseph Goebbels

"Mankind will never be free until the last king has been strangled with the entrails of the last priest".
Diderot.

Here's one from Carmina Burana, explaining why alcohol is legal but marijuana is not.

The mistress drinks, the master drinks,
the soldier drinks, the priest drinks,
the man drinks, the woman drinks,
the servant drinks with the maid,
the swift man drinks, the lazy man drinks,
the white man drinks, the black man drinks,
the settled man drinks, the wanderer drinks,
the stupid man drinks, the wise man drinks.

The poor man drinks, the sick man drinks,
the exile drinks, and the stranger,
the boy drinks, the old man drinks,
the bishop drinks, and the deacon,
the sister drinks, the brother drinks,
the old lady drinks, the mother drinks,
this man drinks, that man drinks,
a hundred drink, a thousand drink.

"A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Rawr.

"Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless." -Thomas Alva Edison

"The desire of power in excess caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge in excess caused man to fall." -Francis Bacon

"Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away."
-Philip K. Dick

"Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent." - Napoleon Bonaparte

"We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him." -Napoleon Bonaparte

"Far better it is to have a stout heart always and to suffer ones share of evils than to be ever fearing what may happen." -Herodotus

No matter where you go, there you are. -Buckaroo Banzai

In the beginning, the universe was created. This made a lot of people very angry and has been widely regarded as a bad move. - Douglas Adams, from his work The Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy.

My top two: (1 funny 1 serious)

May those who love us love us, and those who don't may God turn their hearts. And if he doesn't may he turn their feet so we can tell them by their limping - anonomous

Once in a while we all fight for something we believe in, doesn't that give us all some common ground? - Cardnil in the Kremlin by Tom Clancy

May those who love us love us, and those who don't may God turn their hearts. And if he doesn't may he turn their feet so we can tell them by their limping - anonomous
That's awful!!

Their might be some in here...
http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showthread.php?t=454400

"Before I can live with other folks I've got to live with myself. The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience."
Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

"If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking."
General George Patton

"A fanatic is someone who can't change their mind and won't change the subject."
Sir Winston Churchill

Here are 10, off the top of my head:

"With a face like this I won't break any hearts, and thinking like that I won't make any friends." - Therapy?
"I need you around to remind me what not to become." - Nirvana
"You're so vain, you probably think this song's about you." - Carly Simon
"You can eat the corn out of my shit." - Butt Trumpet
"What else could I say? Everyone is gay." - Nirvana
"I don't know what stopped Jesus Christ from turning every hungry stone into bread, and I don't remember hearing how Moses reacted when the innocent first-born sons lay dead." - Bad Religion
"I don't know why I'd rather be dead than cool." - Nirvana
"Gee, it's great being single and young." - Local H
"My little girlscout, now your mouth is getting sore. Would you love me any less if I hurt you any more?" - Jack Off Jill
"Every time you walk on by, do you really think I watch?" - The Gits

"So long and thanks for the fish"-Douglas Adams
"Veni Vidi Vici"-Julius Ceaser
"May the Force be with you"-Various StarWars Characters
"Voilà! In view, a humble vaudevillian veteran, cast vicariously as both victim and villain by the vicissitudes of Fate. This visage, no mere veneer of vanity, is it vestige of the vox populi, now vacant, vanished. However, this valorous visitation of a by-gone vexation, stands vivified, and has vowed to vanquish these venal and virulent vermin vanguarding vice and vouchsafing the violently vicious and voracious violation of volition. The only verdict is vengeance; a vendetta, held as a votive, not in vain, for the value and veracity of such shall one day vindicate the vigilant and the virtuous. Verily, this vichyssoise of verbiage veers most verbose so let me simply add that it's my very good honor to meet you and you may call me V."- V

Oh and this passage from V for Vendetta
"Evey Hammond: Who are you?
V: Who? Who is but the form following the function of what, and what I am is a man in a mask.
Evey Hammond: Well I can see that.
V: Of course you can. I'm not questioning your powers of observation, I'm merely remarking upon the paradox of asking a masked man who he is."

No one can drive you crazy unless you give them the keys.

"Of all the things I lost, I miss my mind the most."-Ozzy Osbourne

"The judges of this state may go right ahead and convict us for our actions at that time, but History, acting as the goddess of a higher truth and a higher justice, will one day smilingly tear up this verdict, acquitting us of all guilt and blame." - Adolf Hitler
Happy second post, yo. ;)

The role of government is to make society stable, not moral.
-Palladians, here on NS.

"It'll have to go."- The people of Krikkit, deciding to destroy the Universe upon seeing the for the very first time. Douglas Adam's Life, the Universe, and Everything

"A committee is a cul-de-sac down which ideas are lured and then quietly strangled."
-Sir Barnett Cocks (1907 - 1989).
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"Happiness is always a by-product. It is probably a matter of temperament, and for anything I know it may be glandular. But it is not something that can be demanded from life, and if you are not happy you had better stop worrying about it and see what treasures you can pluck from your own brand of unhappiness."
-Robertson Davies

"Better to die on your feet than live on your knees."

"Love until it hurts."-Mother Theresa

"Hatreds do not ever cease in this world by hating, but by not hating. It is a universal truth."-The Buddha

"You must ask yourself in the stillest moment of your night, if it were denied you to create, would you die. If the answer is yes, you have no other choice. If your answer is no, please go do something else."-Rainer Maria Rilke

"Hitch your wagon to a star."-Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Follow your bliss."-Joseph Campbell

"Whatever you do, do it with style."-Freddie Mercury

"The most important thing darling is to live a fabulous life. As long as it's fabulous, i don't care how long it is."-Freddie Mercury

"Whoever would give up a little liberty to gain a little security, will deserve neither and lose both." -- Benjamin Franklin

"The President is merely the most important among a large number of public servants. He should be supported or opposed exactly to the degree which is warranted by his good conduct or bad conduct, his efficiency or inefficiency in rendering loyal, able, and disinterested service to the Nation as a whole. Therefore it is absolutely necessary that there should be full liberty to tell the truth about his acts, and this means that it is exactly necessary to blame him when he does wrong as to praise him when he does right. Any other attitude in an American citizen is both base and servile. To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public. Nothing but the truth should be spoken about him or any one else. But it is even more important to tell the truth, pleasant or unpleasant, about him than about any one else." -- Theodore Roosevelt

The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his. -George S Patton

"Better to die on your feet than live on your knees."
Capt. Nately: It's better to die on your feet, than to live on your knees.

Old Man: You have it backwards: it is better to live on your feet, than to die on your knees.

Bite my shiny metal ass - Bender, from Futurama

Bite my shiny metal ass - Bender, from Futurama
I'm trying desperately to abstain from an onslaught of Futurama, Monty Python, MXC, Steven Wright, and Simpsons jokes here, and you're not helping.

I'm trying desperately to abstain from an onslaught of Futurama, Monty Python, MXC, Steven Wright, and Simpsons jokes here, and you're not helping.


Sorry, it's just that it's my favorite quote from a fictional character. BTW, if you ever find a sound clip of that quote (I've found some with the full dialog between Bender and Fry, but I need just those 5 words), feel free to let me know. I want it as the login sound for my laptop. :D

Sorry, it's just that it's my favorite quote from a fictional character. BTW, if you ever find a sound clip of that quote, feel free to let me know. I want it as the login sound for my laptop. :D
Oh, there's just GOTTA be. I ran across a South Park one the other day, not even meaning to.

"But I like the inconveniences."
"We don't," said the Controller. "We prefer to do things comfortably."
"But I don't want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness. I want sin."
"In fact," said Mustapha Mond, "you're claiming the right to be unhappy."
"All right then," said the Savage defiantly, "I'm claiming the right to be unhappy."
"Not to mention the right to grow old and ugly and impotent; the right to have syphilis and cancer; the right to have too little to eat; the right to be lousy; the right to live in constant apprehension of what may happen tomorrow; the right to catch typhoid; the right to be tortured by unspeakable pains of every kind." There was a long silence.
"I claim them all," said the Savage at last.
Mustapha Mond shrugged his shoulders. "You're welcome," he said.
-- Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

"I will accept any rules that you feel necessary to your freedom. I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them. I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do."
-- Professor Bernardo de la Paz, The Moon is a Harsh Mistress by Robert A. Heinlein

"Ah, yes, the 'unalienable rights.' Each year someone quotes that magnificent poetry. Life? What 'right' to life has a man who is drowning in the Pacific? The ocean will not hearken to his cries. What 'right' to life has a man who must die if he is to save his children? If he chooses to save his own life, does he do so as a matter of 'right'? If two men are starving and cannibalism is the only alternative to death, which man's right is 'unalienable'? And is it 'right'? As to liberty, the heroes who signed the great document pledged themselves to buy liberty with their lives. Liberty is never unalienable; it must be redeemed regularly with the blood of patriots or it always vanishes. Of all the so-called natural human rights that have ever been invented, liberty is least likely to be cheap and is never free of cost."
-- Colonel Dubois, Starship Troopers by Robert A. Heinlein

"All that we want to do away with is the miserable character of this appropriation, under which the labourer lives merely to increase capital, and allowed to live only so far as the interest to the ruling class requires it."
-- The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx

"Civil government, so far as it is instituted for the security of property, is in reality instituted for the defense of the rich against the poor, or of those who have some property against those who have none at all."
-- The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith

"That the only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others. His own good, either physical or moral, is not a sufficient warrant. He cannot rightfully be compelled to do or forbear because it will be better for him to do so, because it will make him happier, because, in the opinions of others, to do so would be wise, or even right. These are good reasons for remonstrating with him, or reasoning with him, or persuading him or entreating him, but not for compelling him, or visiting him with any evil, in case he do other wise."
-- On Liberty by John Stuart Mill

"Je suis condamné à être libre."
-- L'être et le néant by Jean-Paul Sartre

"To speak practically and as a citizen, unlike those who call themselves no-government men, I ask for, not at once no government, but at once a better government. Let every man make known what kind of government would command his respect, and that will be one step toward obtaining it."
-- Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau

"One has not only a legal, but a moral responsibility to obey just laws. Conversely, one has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws."
-- Martin Luther King, Jr.

"When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love has always won. There have been tyrants and murderers and for a time they seem invincible, but in the end, they always fall - think of it, always."
-- Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

"Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it."
-- Mark Twain

"Property is theft." -- Pierre Proudhon


"Property is freedom (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mutualism_%28economic_theory%29#Property)." -- Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

"With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion." -Steven Weinberg

"Those who say religion has nothing to do with politics do not know what religion is." -Mahatma Gandhi

"For seventeen hundred years the Christian sect has done nothing but harm" -Voltaire

"Religion has caused more harm than any other idea since the beginning of time. There's nothing good I can say about it. People use it as a crutch." -Larry Flynt

Wow... I think you and I would get along well in real life. Such a high proportion of anti-religion quotes.... :eek: All of those quotes are great, though.

i quite like proudhon for quotes:

"To be GOVERNED is to be watched, inspected, spied upon, directed,
law-driven, numbered, regulated, enrolled, indoctrinated, preached
at, controlled, checked, estimated, valued, censured, commanded,
by creatures who have neither the right nor the wisdom nor the
virtue to do so. To be GOVERNED is to be at every operation, at every
transaction noted, registered, counted, taxed, stamped, measured,
numbered, assessed, licensed, authorized, admonished, prevented,
forbidden, reformed, corrected, punished. It is, under pretext of
public utility, and in the name of the general interest, to be placed
under contribution, drilled, fleeced, exploited, monopolized, extorted
from, squeezed, hoaxed, robbed; then at the slightest resistance, the
first word of complaint, to be repressed, fined, vilified, harrassed,
hunted down, abused, clubbed, disarmed, bound, choked, imprisoned,
judged, condemned, shot, deported, sacrificed, sold, betrayed, and to
crown all, mocked, ridiculed, derided, outraged, dishonored. That is
government; that is its justice; that is its morality."

P. J. Proudhon, _General Idea of the Revolution in the
Nineteenth Century_

"The Truth is far more powerful than any weapon of mass destruction."
Ghandi

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

"A conservative government is an organized hypocricy."
Benjamin Disraeli

"Get all the fools on your side, and you can be elected to anything."
Frank Dane

"The shaft of the arrow had been feathered with one of the eagles own plumes. We often give our enemies the means of our own destruction."
Aesop

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

"Paterning your life around others opinions is nothing more than slavery."
Lawana Blackwell

"Don't grow a wishbone, where your backbone oughtta be." Clementine Paddleford

"The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all of its contents." H.P. Lovecraft

"Trust in Allah, but tie down your camel." Islamic proverb

"The Los Angeles Clippers may care about L.A, but L.A. sure as hell don't care about the Clippers." My own quote :D

"You get nothing! You lose! Good day, sir! Good day!" Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory

"Perfection is a place where the mass graves are well hidden." Anonymous(?)

Some people see things as they are and ask WHY? I dream things that never were and ask WHY NOT?


Never give up!
Never surrender!
Damn the critics!
Full speed ahead!

"Better that the world should perish than injustice prevail."
--Immanuel Kant

"Do Good and Avoid Evil."
--Thomas Aquinas

"Everything personal is comic."
--Freidrich Neitzsche

"And if I have prophetic powers and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to move mountains, but I have no love, I am nothing. If I give away all my possessions, and if I hand over my body so that I may boast, but do not love, I gain nothing."
--Paul, I Corinthians 13:2-3

"A man who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature who has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself."
--John Stuart Mill

"I wish to have no connection with any ship that does not sail fast, for I intend to go in harm's way."
--John Paul Jones

My signature: Inspector Callahan, Clint Eastwood - The Dead Pool.

i quite like proudhon for quotes:


"Socialism is right to protest against political economy and say that it is simply an unthinking mechanism, and political economy is right to say that socialism is nerely an unrealistic utopia which cannot possibly come into being. But since each in turn is denying something, socialism humanity's past experience and political economy humanity's reason, both are inadequate statements about the truth of human life."
-- System of Economic Contradictions or the Philosophy of Poverty, Volume II, by Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

lee marvin to lee j cobb in the movie "the professionals" after being called a bastard by cobb: Yes sir! An accident of birth. You sir are a self made man!

He is meant for this job. If you cut him little squad cars will come out

~Carl Sparks, current Sheriff of Kern County campaigning for the man he endorses to be the next Sherriff of Kern County~


Be thankful you don't get all the gummint you pay for

~Will Rogers~

It is too late for the pebbles to vote the avalanche has already started


~some god-ish Kosh in Babylon 5~

"If you sit between two chairs, your are more likely to fall on the ground." -A Russian of who's name I forgot. From a movie.

Rock stars ... is there anything they don't know?

America's health care system is second only to Japan... Canada, Sweden, Great Britain... well, all of Europe. But you can thank your lucky stars we don't live in Paraguay!

If he's so smart, how come he's dead?

The food was not undelicious.

I don't apologize. I'm sorry Lisa, that's the way I am.

Words to live by...

"Perrier... you're dead. Stay in character."
-- The SLAGLands

"YOU ARE A LIAT!"
-- Islamic Ummah

"MY STEEL PENISES WILL PROTECT ME!!!!!!"
-- Osutoria-Hangarii

"The Most Evilest Cyborg Empire of Billion Point Oh Oh Two People of The SLAGLands"

"The Evilly-Biased Power-Hungry Conservatively-Liberal Rampaging Virginal Sex-Fiendish Homophobic-Bisexual National-Socialisticish DEAT-Happy Judge, Jury, and Executioning Moddom of Neutered Sputniks"

"Perrier... you're dead. Stay in character."
-- The SLAGLands

"MY STEEL PENISES WILL PROTECT ME!!!!!!"
-- Osutoria-Hangarii

"The Evilly-Biased Power-Hungry Conservatively-Liberal Rampaging Virginal Sex-Fiendish Homophobic-Bisexual National-Socialisticish DEAT-Happy Judge, Jury, and Executioning Moddom of Neutered Sputniks"

Ah...some NS classics right there.

You better take care of me Lord, if you don't you're gonna have me on your hands.

Hunter S. Thompson - from probably the most overquoted film ever, but what the hey.

“I took philosophy in college. We learned to ask the really important questions, like, ‘Does the Pope really shit in the woods?’” ~Steve Martin

Wow... I think you and I would get along well in real life. Such a high proportion of anti-religion quotes.... :eek: All of those quotes are great, though.

Someone (I think it was LG) thought that you and I were the same person- of course, everyone confuses me with Cannot think of a name, as well.

Weird how we all have so much in common, all non-religious, all at least semi-libertarian, and all "nameless".

The most terrifying words in the English langauge are: I'm from the government and I'm here to help. - Ronald Reagan

Biologically speaking, if something bites you it's more likely to be female. - Desmond Morris

Some mornings, it's just not worth chewing through the leather straps. - Emo Philips

I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me - Hunter S. Thompson

Most rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who can't read. - Frank Zappa

The most terrifying words in the English langauge are: I'm from the government and I'm here to help. - Ronald Reagan

Biologically speaking, if something bites you it's more likely to be female. - Desmond Morris

Some mornings, it's just not worth chewing through the leather straps. - Emo Philips

I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me - Hunter S. Thompson

Most rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who can't read. - Frank Zappa
I knew i loved you for some reason, instead of pained, desperate rationalizing. :fluffle:

"Humans, being almost unique in the ability to learn from the mistakes of others, are also remarkable in their apparent unwillingness to do so." -- Douglas Adams

"Corporation, noun. An ingenious device for obtaining individual wealth without individual responsibilty" -- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary

"Corporation, noun. An ingenious device for obtaining individual wealth without individual responsibilty" -- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary
You just got a big ol' *BOW* from me on that one. Bierce ROCKS.

“I contend that we are both atheists. I just believe in one fewer god than you do. When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods, you will understand why I dismiss yours.” -Stephen Roberts

"Never visit a spam factory" piece of advice given to a frien d of mine by an elderly relative.

"Get rid of him but be polite. Tell him to go fuck himself." WC Fields

"Veni, Vedi, Vichi." -Julius Ceaser.

"Those who pray for war, pray for suffering, those who pray for peace, pray for boredom" -Me.

"Live short, and suffer" - Me

"A coward dies a thousand deaths, a hero dies but one." -?

"It takes a big man to cry, but it takes a bigger man to laugh at that man."

"When you die, if you get a choice between going to regular heaven or pie heaven, choose pie heaven. It might be a trick, but if it's not, mmmmmmm, boy."

"Veni, Vidi, Visa - I came, I saw, I shopped" -Unknown

"If you shoot for the moon and miss, atleast you will still be among the stars." -Les Brown

I thought of this one after I read the string of government quotes, as well as Winter-een-mas's V for Vendetta quote:

"People should not be afraid of their governments; governments should be afraid of their people." - V

"Property is theft." -- Pierre Proudhon


Here's another good one:

"...The People's Bank quite simply emobides the financial and economic aspects of the principle of modern democracy, that is, the sovereignty of the People, and of the republican motto, Liberty, Equality, Fraternity. I protest that when I criticized property, or more precisely the complex of institutions of which property is the foundation stone, I never meant to attack the rights of the individual as they are recognized by existing laws, nor to contest the legitimacy of acquired possessions, nor to cause goods to be shared out arbitrarily, nor to prevent property from being freely and regularly acquired through sale and exchange, nor to forbid or suppress, by sovereign decree, ground rent and interest on capital. I believe that all these forms of human activity should remain free and optional for all."
-- Solution of the Social Problem by Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

The emphasis above is mine. Having read many excerpts of his work, it appears to me that Proudhon was not rejecting "property" so much as he was rejecting a perversion of the concept that threatened the liberty and sovereignty of the individual.

"Capitalism is the astounding belief that the most wickedest of men will do the most wickedest of things for the greatest good of everyone." – John Maynard Keynes


"Never argue with an idiot. They'll only drag you down to their level, then beat you with experience." - L-rouge... and probably someone else first.


"I'm very happy to believe that Jesus was married. I know the Catholic Church has problems with gay people and I thought this would be absolute proof that Jesus was not gay." - Ian McKellen on The Da Vinci Code

"The reason why marijuanna isn't legal is because potheads don't vote" --Willie Nelson

"Of all the things I've lost I miss my mind the most" -- Ozzy Osbourne

It is too late for the pebbles to vote the avalanche has already started


~some god-ish Kosh in Babylon 5~

Come on - if you're going to bring in a B5 quote, at least check Wikipedia for the exact phrasing first...

The avalanche has already started. It is too late for the pebbles to vote.

-Kosh Naranek, Babylon 5

"Corporation, noun. An ingenious device for obtaining individual wealth without individual responsibilty" -- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary

Mind if I add some more Ambrose Pierce to this thread? ;)

"Mammon, n. The god of the world's leading religion. His chief temple is in the holy city of New York."
"Saint, n. A dead sinner, revised and edited"
"Hash, x. There is no definition for this word - nobody knows what hash is."
"Lawyer, n. One skilled in the circumvention of the law."
"Liar, n. A lawyer with a roving commission."
"Bride, n. A woman with a great prospect of happiness behind her."
"Kleptomaniac, n. A rich thief."
"Laughter, n. An interior convulsion, producing a distortion of the features and accompanied by inarticulate noises. It is infectious and, although intermittent, uncurable."

I'd add more, but that would make for a rather long thread... ~150 pages worth of thread, in fact. :)

http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showthread.php?t=282493

I win.

The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.

- George Bernard Shaw

"We will hang the last Capitalist with the rope he sells us." - Lenin?

"Margaret Thatcher wasn't creepy. OK - well, maybe a little. In fact, she was like an aunt of mine - same hairstyle, facial structure, only my aunt was much taller, and remarkably hirsute. Oddest thing: she had to shave twice a day." ~Rodney McKay

From Mustafa Kemal Atatürk:
**Yurtta sulh cihanda sulh**
''Peace at home(country), peace at world''

**Tam bağımsızlık benim karakterimdir**
''Full and complete independence is my character''

**Ne kadar zengin ve müreffeh olursa olsun, istiklâlden mahrum bir millet, medenî insanlık karşısında uşak olmak mevkiinden yüksek bir muameleye lâyık sayılamaz.**
''How rich it may be, a nation that lacks independence cannot be treated higher than a servant by civilised world''

**Bir dinin tabiî olması için akla, fenne, ilme ve mantığa uygun olması lazımdır. **
''A Religion needs to be scientific, logic, according to common sense and ilim(philiosophical science like thing we call ilim, you can call it wisdom) in order to be natural(acceptable,proper, in accordance to its nature)'

**Ben icap ettiği zaman en büyük hediyem olmak üzere, Türk Milletine canımı vereceğim. **
'' When its required, as my greatest gift, I will give my life to Türk Nation''

**Milleti kurtaranlar yalnız ve ancak öğretmenlerdir. Öğretmenden, eğiticiden yoksun bir millet, henüz millet namını almak istidadını keşfetmemiştir. **
'' The ones who saves the nation are only teachers. A nation that lacks teachers,educators have not yet discovered the means to take the name of being a nation''


**Türkiye'nin asıl sahibi ve efendisi, gerçek üretici olan köylüdür. O halde, herkesten daha çok refah, saadet ve servete müstahak ve layık olan köylüdür. Onun için, Türkiye Büyük Millet Meclisi'nin iktisadi siyaseti bu aslî gayeye erişmek maksadını güder.**
'' Türkiye's real master is the villagers who are the real producer. Then its villagers who deserve most richness and happiness. And its the goal of Turkish Great National Assembly's economic policy to reach it.''


All are from Mustafa Kemal Atatürk 1881 -1938 Founder of Republic of Turkiye, I tried to translate them to english but I havent been thinking in english for a long time and lacked the state of mind to give full meaning and depth of richness. But I think you get the idea?

Someone (I think it was LG) thought that you and I were the same person- of course, everyone confuses me with Cannot think of a name, as well.

Weird how we all have so much in common, all non-religious, all at least semi-libertarian, and all "nameless".
Yeah, 'cept you're America, and I'm... well... I'm not. Although I suppose I might as well be. It's practically America here.

I totally forgot about this one!

"Slice 'em, dice 'em, shoot 'em full of holes, blow 'em to bits, vaporize 'em, disintegrate 'em, no matter what you do, they'll all come back, good as new..."-Franky "The Bat" Niagra Max Payne

Mind if I add some more Ambrose Pierce to this thread? ;)

"Mammon, n. The god of the world's leading religion. His chief temple is in the holy city of New York."
"Saint, n. A dead sinner, revised and edited"
"Hash, x. There is no definition for this word - nobody knows what hash is."
"Lawyer, n. One skilled in the circumvention of the law."
"Liar, n. A lawyer with a roving commission."
"Bride, n. A woman with a great prospect of happiness behind her."
"Kleptomaniac, n. A rich thief."
"Laughter, n. An interior convulsion, producing a distortion of the features and accompanied by inarticulate noises. It is infectious and, although intermittent, uncurable."

:fluffle:
"Delusion, n. The father of a most respectable family, comprising Enthusiasm, Affection, Self-denial, Faith, Hope, Charity and many other goodly sons and daughters."

and

"Imagination, n. A warehouse of facts, with poet and liar in joint ownership."

and

"Politics, n. A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles.
The conduct of public affairs for private advantage."

and

"Ugliness, n. A gift of the gods to certain women, entailing virtue without humility."

You are SOOOOOO right, it would be about 219 pages or so. :D

"It's nice to be important but it's more important to be nice" - Scooter

Another one:

"The gun is good. The penis is evil."
--Zardoz

“I don't step on toes, LittleJohn, I step on necks!” --Chuck Norris

My favorites:
Well sir, though I may not agree with what you say, I'll defend to the death your right to say it.
There are only two things that are infinite. The universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
A mind all logic is like a knife all blade, it makes the hand that uses it bleed.
They say time is the fire in which we burn. Right now captain, my time is running out. We leave so many things unfinished in our lives.
Dr. Tolian Soran:There was a time when I wouldn't hurt a fly. Then the Borg came. It was then I realized that we're all going to die sooner or later, it's just a question of how or when. Time is a predator. You can feel it can't you, it's stalking you. Oh you can try to outrun it with doctors and medicine, but sooner or later time is going to hunt you down and make the kill.
Captain Picard: It's our mortality that defines us, it's part of the truth of our existence.
Dr. Tolian Soran: What if I told you I'd found a new truth?
Captain Picard: The nexus?
Dr. Tolian Soran: Time has no meaning there, the predator has no teeth.
Someone once told me that time is a predator that stalks us all our lives, but I rather believe that time is a companion that goes with us on the journey and reminds us to cherish every moment because they'll never come again. What we leave behind is not as important as how we've lived. After all, we're only mortal.

We are the Borg. Lower your shields and surrender your ships. Your technological and biological distinctiveness will be added to our own. Your culture will adapt to service us. Resistance is Futile.
Picard:I'm about to commit a direct violation of our orders. Any of you who wish to object should do so now, it will be noted in my log.
Data: *after a pause* Sir, I believe I speak for everyone here when I say *pause* to hell with our orders.
Crewman: Sir, main power is gone. We've lost shields and our weapons are gone.
Worf: argg! Perhaps today is a good day to die! Prepare for ramming speed!
Crewman: Sir, there's another starship coming in... It's the Enterprise!
Riker: Someone once said, "Don't try to be a great man, just be a man and let history make it's own judgments."
Zefram Cochrane: Rhetorical nonsense. Who said that?
Riker: You did, 10 years from now.
Lily: You son of a bitch!
Picard: This really isn't the time.
Lily: Okay, I don't know jack about the 24th century, but everyone out there thinks that staying here and fighting the Borg is suicide. They're just afraid to come in here and say it.
Picard: The crew is accustomed to following my orders.
Lily: They're probably accustomed to your orders making sense!
Picard: None of the understand the Borg as I do! No one does, no one can.
Lily: And what is that supposed to mean?
Picard: Six years ago they assimilated me into their collective. I had their cybernetic devices implanted throughout my body, I was linked to the hive mind, every trace of individuality erased! I was one of them.
So you can imagine, my dear, that I have a somewhat unique perspective on the Borg and I know how to fight them! Now if you'll excuse me I have work to do!
Lily: I am such an idiot. It's so simple. The Borg hurt you and now you're going to hurt them back.
Picard: In my century we don't succumb to revenge, we have a more evolved sensibility.
Lily: BULLSHIT! I saw the look on your face when you shot those Borg on the holodeck. You were almost enjoying it!
Picard: How dare you-
Lily: Oh come on captain! You're not the first man to get a thrill from murdering someone! I see it all the time!
Picard: GET OUT!
Lily: OR WHAT? You'll kill me like you killed Ensign Lynch!?
Picard: There was no way to save him.
Lily: You didn't even try! Where was your evolved sensibility then?
Picard: I don't have time for this.
Lily: Oh sorry. Didn't mean to interrupt your little quest! Captain Ahab has to go hunt his whale!
Picard: ...what?
Lily: You do have books in the 24th century?
Picard: This is not about revenge!
Lily: Liar!
Picard: This is about saving the future of humanity!
Lily: Jean-Luc, blow up the damn ship!
Picard: No! NOOOOOOO!!!... I will not sacrifice the Enterprise! We've made to many compromises already! Too many retreats! They invade our space, and we fall back. They assimilate entire worlds and we fall back. NOT AGAIN! The line must be drawn here! This far no further! And I will make them pay!
Lily: ......you broke your little ships...See you around Ahab.
Picard: "and he piled upon the whale's white hump the sum of all the rage and hate felt by his whole race. If his chest had been a cannon, he would have shot his heart upon it."
Lily: What?
Picard: Moby Dick.
Lily: Actually, I never read it.
Picard: Ahab spent years hunting the whale that crippled him, the quest for vengeance. But in the end it destroyed him and his ship.
Lily: I guess he didn't know when to quit.

Plus many, many Monty Python, Family Guy, Simpsons quotes

My favorites

The First Contact sequence was AWESOME. Very well done. *bows*

The First Contact sequence was AWESOME. Very well done. *bows*
I actually did the scene between Lily and Picard in my High School Drama class, (I was Picard) and I even made a compression rifle and little models of the ships to smash when the time came (I never did find all the pieces). That's why I know it so well.

I actually did the scene between Lily and Picard in my High School Drama class, (I was Picard) and I even made a compression rifle and little models of the ships to smash when the time came (I never did find all the pieces). That's why I know it so well.
Very cool. :cool:
That, Tapestry, and Who Watches The Watchers? are the ones i would want to do from ST:TNG. Perhaps others, but those are the ones to come to mind.
I think Kyronea mentioned a few more.

Very cool. :cool:
That, Tapestry, and Who Watches The Watchers? are the ones i would want to do from ST:TNG. Perhaps others, but those are the ones to come to mind.
I think Kyronea mentioned a few more.
Oh yeah, those were good ones, I also would like "Gambit" and "All Good Things..." from TNG (Who am I kidding, I'd love to do all of them, but it ain't gonna happen)

"One death is a tragedy; one million deaths is a statistic." - Stalin

Oh yeah, those were good ones, I also would like "Gambit" and "All Good Things..." from TNG (Who am I kidding, I'd love to do all of them, but it ain't gonna happen)
Which one was "Gambit"?
I of course, was thinking specifically of good Picard ones, btw ... ;)

A powerful quote comes to us from our fearless leader.. fool me once shame .... (pause) on you.... fool me...twice .........(long pause) well what it means to say is you cant fool me twice...

"It's a beautiful goldwatch... I really love it. My grandfather sold it to me on his deathbed" -Woody Allen

Which one was "Gambit"?
I of course, was thinking specifically of good Picard ones, btw ... ;)
Gambit was the one where Picard infiltrated the mercenary ship that was raiding archeaological sites looking for the ancient Vulcan artifact.
[I too, was thinking about good Picard ones. They're all good if he's in it ;) ]

\\//_
Live Long and Prosper

A powerful quote comes to us from our fearless leader.. fool me once shame .... (pause) on you.... fool me...twice .........(long pause) well what it means to say is you cant fool me twice...
"I know what I believe. I will continue to articulate what I believe and what I believe — I believe what I believe is right." —Rome, Italy, July 22, 2001
Funny, i thought i was quoting Yarvolk ... oh well!

"I am an occasional drinker, the kind of guy who goes out for a beer and wakes up in Singapore with a full beard". Raymond Chandler

"I've learned that making a living isnt the same as making a life."

"Great minds think alike and fools seldom differ"

"I love not the sword fo it's brightness, nor the arrow for it's swiftness, nor the warrior for his glory. I love that which they defend."

and one short poem that I do like a lot

Aedh Wishes For The Cloths Of Heaven by William Butler Yeats.

Had I the heavens' embroidered cloths,
Enwrought with golden and silver light,
The blue and the dim and the dark cloths
Of night and light and the half light,
I would spread the cloths under your feet:
But I, being poor, have only my dreams;
I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.

See my sig too :D

"Veni, Vedi, Vichi." -Julius Ceaser.

Sorry, but as a student of Latin, I can't leave this one alone.

Veni, Vidi, Vici, I believe ;)

Sorry, but as a student of Latin, I can't leave this one alone.

Veni, Vidi, Vici, I believe ;)
And it's "Caesar", not "Ceaser"... :p

Almost any of Sir Winston Churchill's quotes.

And the one in my sig.

“What you do not want done to you, do not do unto others.” Confucius.

And it's "Caesar", not "Ceaser"... :p

OMG, I can't believe I let that one slip! :eek: :p

I guess I was too shocked to notice anything beyond the first few errors, lol

“What you do not want done to you, do not do unto others.” Confucius.

That sounds suspiciously like something I've heard attributed to Jesus :p

Capt. Nately: It's better to die on your feet, than to live on your knees.

Old Man: You have it backwards: it is better to live on your feet, than to die on your knees.

Catch 22 right?

Great book :)

"There was only one catch and that was Catch-22, that specified that a concern for one's own safety in the face of dangers that were real and immediate was the process of a rational mind. Orr was crazy and could be grounded. All he had to do was ask; and as soon as he did, he would no longer be crazy and would have to fly more missions"

"I've learned that making a living isnt the same as making a life."

Yay! Peech!

Maya Angelou rocks.

"I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel".

"There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you".

"I can be changed by what happens to me. but i refuse to be reduced by it".

"I want all my senses engaged. Let me absorb the world's variety and uniqueness".

"We allow our ignorance to prevail upon us and make us think we can survive alone, alone in patches, alone in groups, alone in races, even alone in genders".

Ben Franklin: Fish and visitors stink in three days.

Me: History is past, but we can learn.

Frankie again: A penny saved is a penny earned.

Tht's all I can think of.

I do not believe it is man's destiny to compress this once boundless earth into a small neighborhood, the better to destroy it. Nor do I believe it is in the nature of man to strike eternally at the image of himself, and therefore of God. I profoundly believe that there is on this horizon, as yet only dimly perceived, a new dawn of conscience. In that purer light, people will come to see themselves in each other, which is to say they will make themselves known to one another by their similarities rather than by their differences. Man's knowledge of things will begin to be matched by man's knowledge of self. The significance of a smaller world will be measured not in terms of military advantage, but in terms of advantage for the human community. It will be the triumph of the heartbeat over the drumbeat.
-Adlai E. Stevenson

There is a level of cowardice lower than that of the conformist: the fashionable non-conformist.
-Ayn Rand

I may be drunk, but you madame, are ugly, and in the morning I will be sober - Sir Winston Churchill

The world is divided into two types of people, those who divide the world into two types of people and those who do not, I fall resolutely into the latter category - Stephen Fry

History will be kind to me, for I intend to write it - Sir Winston Churchill

Give me a big enough lever, and I will beat the bloody problem into submission - Owen Deathstalker (In the book "Deathstalker Honour" by Simon R Green)

Rien n'est grave. Tout passe.

Michel de Montaigne

"The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off."

Me - "More and more, doing what may not seem right at the time, to perserve what is right, will eventually be seen to be what was right in the long run."

"It is not a question of dominating others; although the Overman, having become master of himself, will become master of those who have not mastered themselves." -Nietzsche-

"Cant you see, now open up your eyes.
Every politician is a human in disguise."

-Matisyahu-

"There is no wealth like knowledge, no poverty like ignorance."
-Ali ibn Abi-Talib-

"I am the Lord thy God. Thou shalt have no other Gods before Me"
-The greatest mac daddy of all, God-

"A man does not have himself killed for a half-pence a day or for a petty distinction. You have to speak to the soul in order to electrify him"
-The greatest warrior in French history, who wasnt even French!-

And possibly my favorite:

"What luck for rulers that men do not think."
The greatest tyrant that ever walked the earth, Adolf Hitler.

"lack of originality will be the death of us all"

me

"We will hang the last Capitalist with the rope he sells us." - Lenin?
Beautiful. Utterly beautiful.

Catch 22 right?

Great book :)
*bows*


"There was only one catch and that was Catch-22, that specified that a concern for one's own safety in the face of dangers that were real and immediate was the process of a rational mind. Orr was crazy and could be grounded. All he had to do was ask; and as soon as he did, he would no longer be crazy and would have to fly more missions"
"Morale was deteriorating and it was all Yossarian's fault. The country was in peril; he was jeopardizing his traditional rights of freedom and independence by daring to exercise them." Chapter 39, pg. 415
"History did not demand Yossarian's premature demise, justice could be satisfied without it, progress did not hinge upon it, victory did not depend on it. That men would die was a matter of necessity; which men would die, though, was a matter of circumstance, and Yossarian was willing to be the victim of anything but circumstance. But that was war." Chapter 8, pg. 75

"Democracy is two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner." --dunno' who said it

"No dictator, no invader, can hold an imprisoned population by the force of arms forever. There is no greater power in the universe than the need for freedom. Against that power governments and tyrants and armies cannot stand. [. . .] Though it take a thousand years, we will be free." --G'kar, Babylon 5

"You're an interesting species, an interesting mix. You're capable of such beautiful dreams. And such horrible nightmares. You feel so lost . . . so cut off. So alone. Only you're not. See, in all of our searching, the only thing we've found that makes the emptiness bearable is each other." --Alien, Contact

"I was given something wonderful, something that changed me forever. A vision-- of the universe-- that tells us undeniably how tiny and insignificant, and how rare and precious we all are. A vision that tells us that we belong to something that is greater than ourselves, that we are not-- that none of us-- are alone." --Ellie Arroway, Contact

"Tell me, and I may forget. Show me, and I may remember. Involve me, and I will understand." --Chinese proverb

And for but a few of the many priceless witticisms from Buffy the Vampire Slayer...

"I'm so evil and skanky. And I think I'm kinda gay." --Willow Rosenburg, talking about Vampire-Willow, Buffy

"This is the crack team that foils my every plan? I am deeply shamed." --Spike, Buffy

"No one is judging you. It's understandable. Spike is strong and mysterious and sort of compact but well-muscled..."
"I am not having sex with Spike! But I'm starting to think you are."
--Xander & Buffy, Buffy

"Funny. 'Cause I look around at this world you're so eager to be a part of... and all I see is six billion lunatics looking for the fastest ride out. Who's not crazy? Look around. Everyone's drinking, smoking, shooting up... shooting each other, or just plain screwing their brains out 'cause they don't want 'em anymore. I'm crazy? Honey, I'm the original one-eyed chicklet in the kingdom of the blind. 'Cause at least I admit the world makes me nuts. --Glory, Buffy

(and I've added a lot of great quotes from this thread to my collection, thanks!)