Great Quotes .... Or Just Quotes you like.

[Bob B]

I'll start with one by Ronald Reagan that I posted in another thread.


But freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction.
We didn’t pass it on to our children in the bloodstream.
The only way they can inherit the freedom we have known is if we fight for it, protect it, defend it, and then hand it to them with the well-taught lessons of how they in their lifetime must do the same.
And if you and I don’t do this, then you and I may well spend our sunset years telling our children and our children’s children what it was once like in America where men were free.

 

[Bob B]

One from Voltaire

"Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities."

 

[fatjay]

Speak softly and carry a large stick.

 

[Bob B]

Here's one that shows us current problems have been brewing for longer than we think.

" The tyranny of the minority is
infinitely more odious and intolerable
and more to be feared than that of
the majority."
President William McKinley

 

[Bob B]

"Common sense is not so common."
Voltaire

 

[Daddy Tanuki]

"Common sense is not so common."
Voltaire

I like to paraphrase this one into the more modern, popular vernacular as "Common sense, so rare its a fucking superpower".

 

[42OhmsPA]

You can't teach common sense but stupidity spreads like a wild fire.

 

[agtcovert]

You can't teach common sense but stupidity spreads like a wild fire.

Especially when you get people in a crowd.

 

[Daddy Tanuki]

You can't teach common sense but stupidity spreads like a wild fire.

yes, i have seen it in action... its like a fast acting virus that takes some people of normal intelligence and turns them into imbeciles...

 

[aenyc]

“And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family? Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand?… The Organs would very quickly have suffered a shortage of officers and transport and, notwithstanding all of Stalin’s thirst, the cursed machine would have ground to a halt! If…if…We didn’t love freedom enough. And even more – we had no awareness of the real situation…. We purely and simply deserved everything that happened afterward.”

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

 

[aenyc]

 

[D71]

" if it will not matter in 6 months then it doesnt matter"

I remember that from military. I don't rember first time heard it.

 

[Bob B]

While I don't agree with this one ..... I see a lot.

The easiest was to solve a problem is to deny that it exists.
Isaac Asimov

 

[Daddy Tanuki]

While I don't agree with this one ..... I see a lot.

The easiest was to solve a problem is to deny that it exists.
Isaac Asimov

isn't that the senate and congress's motto?

 

[aenyc]

“Forget the politicians. The politicians are put there to give you the idea that you have freedom of choice. You don’t. You have no choice. You have owners. They own you. They own everything. They own all the important land. They own and control the corporations. They’ve long since bought and paid for the Senate, the Congress, the state houses, the city halls. They got the judges in their back pockets and they own all the big media companies, so they control just about all of the news and information you get to hear. They got you by the balls. They spend billions of dollars every year lobbying. Lobbying to get what they want. Well, we know what they want. They want more for themselves and less for everybody else, but I’ll tell you what they don’t want. They don’t want a population of citizens capable of critical thinking. They don’t want well-informed, well-educated people capable of critical thinking. They’re not interested in that. That doesn’t help them. That’s against their interests. That’s right.”

 

[aenyc]

“Sooner or later the people in this country are going to realize: the government does not give a fuck about them. The government doesn’t care about you, or your children, or your rights, or your welfare, or your safety. It simply doesn’t give a fuck about you. It’s interested in its own power. That’s the only thing keeping it and expanding it wherever possible.”

 

[Daddy Tanuki]

“Forget the politicians. The politicians are put there to give you the idea that you have freedom of choice. You don’t. You have no choice. You have owners. They own you. They own everything. They own all the important land. They own and control the corporations. They’ve long since bought and paid for the Senate, the Congress, the state houses, the city halls. They got the judges in their back pockets and they own all the big media companies, so they control just about all of the news and information you get to hear. They got you by the balls. They spend billions of dollars every year lobbying. Lobbying to get what they want. Well, we know what they want. They want more for themselves and less for everybody else, but I’ll tell you what they don’t want. They don’t want a population of citizens capable of critical thinking. They don’t want well-informed, well-educated people capable of critical thinking. They’re not interested in that. That doesn’t help them. That’s against their interests. That’s right.”

george carlin? sounds like him. a very perceptive man

 

[aenyc]

“If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy.”
-James Madison

 

[aenyc]

“A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him.”
– Ezra Pound

 

[Chispas]

A week is a long time in politics.
Harold Wilson.

 

[littleharbor2]

'Beer Is Proof that God Loves Us and Wants Us To Be Happy​

 

[Daddy Tanuki]

'Beer Is Proof that God Loves Us and Wants Us To Be Happy​

I used to think that until i got diabetes from drinking 3 liters a day of Asahi Super dry.... what is it with all the tasty things in life are so bad for you? Crazy liberal Women with daddy issues.... Beer.... Wild Turkey on the rocks....

 

[klystron]

"The early bird may get the worm, but it's the second mouse that gets the cheese."
-- Steven Wright

 

[aenyc]

The only thing free is cheese in a mousetrap.

 

[Bob B]

I used to think that until i got diabetes from drinking 3 liters a day of Asahi Super dry.... what is it with all the tasty things in life are so bad for you? Crazy liberal Women with daddy issues.... Beer.... Wild Turkey on the rocks....

Don't think I ever had the super dry ..... had a lot of Asahi and Kirin .... but mostly stuck to Nikka Rocks.

We all went crazy and drank a bunch of Absinthe on night. The girls in the stand bar were all horrified ..... didn't seem as bad as they thought it would be.