meaningful quotes thread.

[gary111]

You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.

If you are going through hell, keep going.

 

[blumoonrisen]

Give any one species too much rope and they'll fuck it up.

 

[lee-mcfc]

"when your pissed if shes not fit still...smash her backdoors in"
By Lee

We all gonna die, we bleed from similar veins.
Tupac Shakur

I'd rather be hated for who I am, than loved for who I am not.
Kurt Cobain

Dealing with backstabbers, there was one thing I learned. They're only powerful when you got your back turned.
Eminem




love this one below

We may have all come on different ships, but we're in the same boat now.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

oh and

It's better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone.
Marilyn Monroe

 

[Johnsonontheleft]

"As I look ahead, I am filled with foreboding; like the Roman, I seem to see "the River Tiber foaming with much blood'."

 

[Petrovs left peg]

"To appreciate the highest mountain, one must visit the deepest valley"

Not sure who but it was always my mates excuse when I quizzed him about the 20-stone heffer he'd took home the night before!

 

[Skashion]

Does it follow that I reject all authority? Far from me such a thought. In the matter of boots, I refer to the authority of the bootmaker; concerning houses, canals, or railroads, I consult that of the architect or engineer. For such or such special knowledge I apply to such or such a savant. But I allow neither the bootmaker nor the architect nor the savant to impose his authority upon me. I listen to them freely and with all the respect merited by their intelligence, their character, their knowledge, reserving always my incontestable right of criticism and censure. I do not content myself with consulting authority in any special branch; I consult several; I compare their opinions, and choose that which seems to me the soundest. But 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, God and the State (1876)

The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win. Proletarians of all countries, unite!

Karl Marx, The Manifesto of the Communist Party (1848)

If there is hope... it lies in the proles.

George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949)

Freedom is always the freedom of dissenters.

Rosa Luxemburg, Die russische Revolution. Eine kritische Würdigung (1920)

The principles of justice are chosen behind a veil of ignorance.

John Rawls, A Theory of Justice (1971)

Money does not represent such a value as men have placed upon it. All my money has been invested into experiments with which I have made new discoveries enabling mankind to have a little easier life.

Nikola Tesla

 

[Johnsonontheleft]

"The most fundamental fact about the ideas of the political left is that they do not work. Therefore we should not be surprised to find the left concentrated in institutions where ideas do not have to work in order to survive."
-- Thomas Sowell



"You cannot bring prosperity by discouraging thrift.
You cannot help small men by tearing down big men.
You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong.
You cannot lift the wage earner by pulling down the wage payer.
You cannot help the poor man by destroying the rich.
You cannot keep out of trouble by spending more than your income.
You cannot further brotherhood of men by inciting class hatred.
You cannot establish security on borrowed money.
You cannot build character and courage by taking away man's initiative and independence.
You cannot help men permanently by doing for them what they could and should do for themselves."


"A government policy to rob Peter to pay Paul can be assured of the support of Paul."
-- George Bernard Shaw

 

[nijinsky's fetlocks]

'I know that I know nothing' - Socrates.
The philosopher,not the footballer.

 

[gaudinho's stolen car]

Well, so far we've had Adolf Hitler and Enoch Powell. Maybe next we should hear from someone a bit more liberal, like Nathan Bedford Forrest?

 

[davefrombury]

"Every hole's a goal" ..... me after 10 pints of bitter !