Thread: Quotes

Quantity has a quality all of its own. Fabulous Russian proverb, appropriately applied when the siege of Stalingrad was broken and turned around. The Germans were better equipped, well trained, well led, battle hardened, dug in and defending, whilst the Russians were ill equipped, hardly trained, poorly led and raw, but they turned it around through sheer force of numbers.

More important than the life of a thousand nutty islamists around the globe that wish to destroy the West, is a single civilian Western life. I wouldn't bother asking the pickled paki but you have been known for the occasional window of clarity so how about it, would you publicly dare to agree?

--keda

yes that's a nice one too, sTroll...

"After eight years of a White House that had only a sporadic interest in the domestic front, Obama has made clear that he's going to be attacking domestic problems on all cylinders,"

~Bruce Reed~

'Almost all people have this potential for evil, which would be unleashed only under certain dangerous social circumstances'

Closest to the truth are these who deal lightly with it because they know it is inexhaustible

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

Humor Is Reason Gone Mad......

If a man have a stubborn and rebellious son ... Then shall his father and his mother ... bring him out unto the elders of his city ... And all the men of his city shall stone him with stones, that he die.
-- Deuteronomy 21:18-21

Very good sTroll, now fom one of the truly great men of our time.

Winston Churchill was one of the century's greats....


Had this quote (from 1899!!) drawn to attn by a recent USA talk on<Winston's Early Years>; truly a man of vision - and honest accuracy."How dreadful are the curses which Mohammedanism lays on its votaries!
Besides the fanatical frenzy, which is as dangerous in a man ashydrophobia in a dog, there is this fearful fatalistic apathy. Theeffects are apparent in many countries. Improvident habits, slovenlysystems of agriculture, sluggish methods of commerce, and insecurity
of property exist wherever the followers of the Prophet rule or live."A degraded sensualism deprives this life of its grace and refinement;the next of its dignity and sanctity. The fact that in Mohammedan law
every woman must belong to some man as his absolute property, eitheras a child, a wife, or a concubine, must delay the final extinction ofslavery until the faith of Islam has ceased to be a great power among
men."Individual Moslems may show splendid qualities, but the influence ofthe religion paralyses the social development of those who follow it.No stronger retrograde force exists in the world. Far from being
moribund, Mohammedanism is a militant and proselytizing faith. It hasalready spread throughout Central Africa, raising fearless warriors atevery step; and were it not that Christianity is sheltered in thestrong arms of science, the science against which it had vainly
struggled, the civilization of modern Europe might fall, as fell thecivilization of ancient Rome."Sir Winston Churchill (The River War, first edition, Vol. II, pages248-50, London: Longmans, Green Co., 1899).

When you are solving a problem, don’t worry. Now, after you have solved the problem, then that’s the time to worry.
— Richard Feynman

"It seems to me that Islam and Christianity and Judaism all have the same god, and he's telling them all different things. "

~Billy Connolly~

Three antihuman religions have evolved -- Judaism, Christianity and Islam. These are sky-god religions. They are, literally, patriarchal -- God is the omnipotent father -- hence the loathing of women for 2,000 years in those countries afflicted by the skygod and his earthly male delegates. The sky-god is a jealous god, of course. He requires total obedience from everyone on earth, as he is in place not just for one tribe but for all creation. Those who would reject him must be converted or killed for their own good. Ultimately, totalitarianism is the only sort of politics that can truly serve the sky-god's purpose. Any movement of a liberal nature endangers his authority and that of his delegates on earth. One God, one King, one Pope, one master in the factory, one father-leader in the family at home.
-- Gore Vidal

It takes a clever man to turn cynic and a wise man to be clever enough not to.
— Fannie Hurst

"Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction."

~Blaise Pascal~

Light travels faster than sound. That’s why some people appear bright until you hear them speak.
anon

"Aren’t we forgetting the true meaning of Christmas? You know, the birth of Santa."
~Bart Simpson, The Simpsons~

^cute!

"God is a metaphor for that which trancends all levels of intellectual thought. It's as simple as that. " ~Joseph Campbell

"Every religion is true one way or another. It is true when understood metaphorically. But when it gets stuck in its own metaphors, interpreting them as facts, then you are in trouble. " ~Joseph Campbell

I believe in God, but not as one thing, not as an old man in the sky. I believe that what people call God is something in all of us. I believe that what Jesus and Mohammed and Buddha and all the rest said was right. It's just that the translations have gone wrong. ~John Lennon

If someone thinks that love and peace is a cliche that must have been left behind in the Sixties, that's his problem. Love and peace are eternal. ~John Lennon

Only in our dreams are we free. The rest of the time we need wages.
— Terry Pratchett

"Flank your adversary when possible. Protect yours." -- Marine Corps Rules for Gun Fighting

When you can turn people on their head and shake them and no money falls out, then you know God's saying, "Move on, son."
-- A A Allen

"There is only one basic human right, the right to do as you damn well please. And with it comes the only basic human duty, the duty to take the consequences." -- P.J. O'Rourke

"It is enough that the people know there was an election. The people who cast the votes decide nothing. The people who count the votes decide everything." -- Joseph Stalin

"Out upon merry Christmas! What's Christmas time to you but a time for paying bills without money; a time for finding yourself a year older, but not an hour richer...? If I could work my will," said Scrooge indignantly, "every idiot who goes about with 'Merry Christmas' upon his lips should be boiled with his won pudding, and buried with a stake of holly through his heart. He should!"

~Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol~