Thread: The best quotes ever

"Never underestimate the difficulty of changing false beliefs by facts."
-- Henry Rosovsky

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It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong." -- Thomas Sowell

“I have never understood why it is "greed" to want to keep the money you have earned but not greed to want to take somebody else's" money. -- Thomas Sowell

"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

The forces of a capitalist society, if left unchecked, tend to make the rich richer and the poor poorer.

JAWAHARLAL NEHRU

Predatory capitalism created a complex industrial system and an advanced technology; it permitted a considerable extension of democratic practice and fostered certain liberal values, but within limits that are now being pressed and must be overcome. It is not a fit system for the mid-twentieth century.

NOAM CHOMSKY

Experience demands that man is the only animal which devours his own kind, for I can apply no milder term to the general prey of the rich on the poor.
~ Thomas Jefferson.

Advocates of capitalism are very apt to appeal to the sacred principles of liberty, which are embodied in one maxim: The fortunate must not be restrained in the exercise of tyranny over the unfortunate.

BERTRAND RUSSELL

If you don't like it, go fuck yourself!

“There is something beautiful in seeing the poor accept their lot, to suffer it like Christ's Passion. The world gains much from their suffering,”

saint......"!!?? Mother Theresa

''As you were, I was
As I am, you will be ''

Think it's an old Roman one copied by others too

History is crammed full of supposedly clever people saying what appears to be sublimely clever things; which in fact mean fuck all and change nothing.

Koman AD 2013

Being generous and compassionate with other people's money is like being loving and caring with someone else's wife. -- Anon

Nothing revives the past so completely as a smell that was once associated with it.

Vladimir Nabokov.

Originally Posted by nidhogg

Nothing revives the past so completely as a smell that was once associated with it.

Vladimir Nabokov.

"Lolita" was a fine read.

Originally Posted by Boon Mee

Originally Posted by nidhogg

Nothing revives the past so completely as a smell that was once associated with it.

Vladimir Nabokov.

"Lolita" was a fine read.

Except the quote came from "Mary".........

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

Big Brother and the Party justify their rule in the name of a supposed greater good.” - George Orwell, 1984.

“In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.” - George Orwell 1984

Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

“Good for you, you have a heart, you can be a liberal. Now, couple your heart with your brain, and you can be a conservative.”
― Glenn Beck

"I just took a leaflet out of my mailbox, informing me that I can have sex at 66. I'm so happy, because I live at number 72. So it's not too far to walk home afterwards. And it's the same side of the street, so I don't even have to cross the road!" -- Sid Vicious

Originally Posted by Boon Mee

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

Good old boy Churchill, wonnee.

"Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.."

Martin Luther King, Jr.