Thread: Quotes

The future, according to some scientists, will be exactly like the past, only far more expensive.
— John Sladek

“The future belongs to those who prepare for it today.”

~Malcom X~

“People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.”

~Otto von Bismarck~

The right to be heard does not include the right to be taken seriously.
— Hubert H. Humphrey

'Disposable Heroes': Veterans Used to Test Suicide-Linked Drugs

"I don't think this is new. I remember one of the first things I was told when entering the military was "you are now owned by the government----just like a piece of property." The government has experimented with soldiers in battle in every war, spent their lives to try out new equipment and no one ever considered that unusual or unacceptable. The government left soldiers standing near the atomic tests, experimented with LSD... In Vietnam it was Agent Orange...In the other Iraq war it was untested face mask. As long as the people that run the military think they own the soldiers they will do whatever they want."

Originally Posted by Boon Mee

The right to be heard does not include the right to be taken seriously. — Hubert H. Humphrey

Hey booners. What's with the Humphrey quote. Are you leaning a little to the left?

"Americans love to fight. All real Americans love the sting of battle."

~George S. Patton~

Patriotism is a religion, the egg from which wars are hatched.": Guy de Maupassant



"Politically speaking, tribal nationalism [patriotism] always insists that its own people are surrounded by 'a world of enemies' - 'one against all' - and that a fundamental difference exists between this people and all others. It claims its people to be unique, individual, incompatible with all others, and denies theoretically the very possibility of a common mankind long before it is used to destroy the humanity of man." -Hannah Arendt, The Origins Of Totalitarianism p.227



"Seas of blood have been shed for the sake of patriotism. One would expect the harm and irrationality of patriotism to be self-evident to everyone. But the surprising fact is that cultured and learned [socially conditioned and indoctrinated] people not only do not notice the harm and stupidity of patriotism, they resist every unveiling of it with the greatest obstinacy and passion (with no rational grounds), and continue to praise it as beneficent and elevating." -Leo Tolstoy



"Blind patriotism has been kept intact by rewriting history to provide people with moral consolation and a psychological basis for denial." -William H. Boyer


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“Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.”

~Bertrand Russell~

Everybody’s worried about stopping terrorism. Well, there’s a really easy way: stop participating in it.” Noam Chomsky

Belief in God does not preclude belief in evolution.
Belief in evolution does not preclude belief in God.
Do not trust those who insist otherwise.
— Lao Stinky

The fanatic is incorruptible: if he kills for an idea, he can just as well get himself killed for one; in either case, tyrant or martyr, he is a monster.
— E. M. Cioran

"Common sense is not so common."
~Voltaire~

"Most people who look at the misery and mediocrity in these countries ask themselves, "Why does the United States have so much?" The real question to ask is: "Why do they have so little?"" - Michael J. Hurd </B>

" The whole art of government consists in the heart of being honest."
~Thomas Jefferson~

The real persuaders are our appetites, our fears and above all our vanity. The skillful propagandist stirs and coaches these internal persuaders.
— Eric Hoffer

Put the entire German team into a sack and kick it, it doesn't matter who you hit, he deserved it!!!!

German footballing Legend Franz Beckenbauer after Germany failed to qualify from the group stages of Euro 2000

Whoever said, "It's not whether you win or lose that counts" probably lost.
~Martina Navratilova~

“The difference between a philanthropist and a liberal is that a philanthropist is generous with his own money.” -- Jack Kelly

"We can't drive our SUVs and eat as much as we want and keep our homes on 72 degrees at all times ... and then just expect that other countries are going to say OK," -- Barack Hussein Obama

"This country is a better place because Fox News has succeeded."
~Bill O'Reilly~

Wisdom Quotes

1. You can do anything, but not everything.
—David Allen

2. Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.
—Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

3. The richest man is not he who has the most, but he who needs the least.
—Unknown Author

4. You miss 100 percent of the shots you never take.
—Wayne Gretzky

5. Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear.
—Ambrose Redmoon

6. You must be the change you wish to see in the world.
—Gandhi

7. When hungry, eat your rice; when tired, close your eyes. Fools may laugh at me, but wise men will know what I mean.
—Lin-Chi

8. The third-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the majority. The second-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the minority. The first-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking.
—A. A. Milne

9. To the man who only has a hammer, everything he encounters begins to look like a nail.
—Abraham Maslow

10. We are what we repeatedly do; excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.
—Aristotle

11. A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends.
—Baltasar Gracian

12. Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the men of old; seek what they sought.
—Basho

13. Watch your thoughts; they become words.
Watch your words; they become actions.
Watch your actions; they become habits.
Watch your habits; they become character.
Watch your character; it becomes your destiny.
—Lao-Tze

14. Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together.
—Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

15. What we think, or what we know, or what we believe is, in the end, of little consequence. The only consequence is what we do.
—John Ruskin

16. The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new lands but seeing with new eyes.
—Marcel Proust

17. Work like you don’t need money, love like you’ve never been hurt, and dance like no one’s watching
—Unknown Author

18. Try a thing you haven’t done three times. Once, to get over the fear of doing it. Twice, to learn how to do it. And a third time, to figure out whether you like it or not.
—Virgil Garnett Thomson

19. Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.
—Will Rogers

20. People often say that motivation doesn’t last. Well, neither does bathing - that’s why we recommend it daily.
—Zig Ziglar

Funny Quotes

21. Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children and no theories.
—John Wilmot

22. What the world needs is more geniuses with humility, there are so few of us left.
—Oscar Levant

23. Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.
—Oscar Wilde

24. I’ve gone into hundreds of [fortune-teller's parlors], and have been told thousands of things, but nobody ever told me I was a policewoman getting ready to arrest her.
—New York City detective

25. When you go into court you are putting your fate into the hands of twelve people who weren’t smart enough to get out of jury duty.
—Norm Crosby

26. Those who believe in telekinetics, raise my hand.
—Kurt Vonnegut

27. Just the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.
—Carl Sagan

28. My pessimism extends to the point of even suspecting the sincerity of the pessimists.
—Jean Rostand

29. Sometimes I worry about being a success in a mediocre world.
—Lily Tomlin

30. I quit therapy because my analyst was trying to help me behind my back.
—Richard Lewis

31. We’ve heard that a million monkeys at a million keyboards could produce the complete works of Shakespeare; now, thanks to the Internet, we know that is not true.
—Robert Wilensky

32. If there are no stupid questions, then what kind of questions do stupid people ask? Do they get smart just in time to ask questions?
—Scott Adams

33. If the lessons of history teach us anything it is that nobody learns the lessons that history teaches us.
—Anon

34. When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President. Now I’m beginning to believe it.
—Clarence Darrow

35. Laughing at our mistakes can lengthen our own life. Laughing at someone else’s can shorten it.
—Cullen Hightower

36. There are many who dare not kill themselves for fear of what the neighbors will say.
—Cyril Connolly

37. There’s so much comedy on television. Does that cause comedy in the streets?
—Dick Cavett

38. All men are frauds. The only difference between them is that some admit it. I myself deny it.
—H. L. Mencken

39. I don’t mind what Congress does, as long as they don’t do it in the streets and frighten the horses.
—Victor Hugo

40. I took a speed reading course and read ‘War and Peace’ in twenty minutes. It involves Russia.
—Woody Allen