Great and memorable quotes:

[newman]

We often stumble across great, profound quotes in life only to forget the source later on. Here is a small collection to get started. Please add others that you may come across.
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A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a well, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, co-operate, act alone, solve equations, analyse a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialisation is for insects. -- Robert Heinlein


"People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf." ----George Orwell


"Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel or envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery." - -- Winston Churchill


"Inside every man is a George Costanza"----Newman

[newman]

"When dictatorship is a fact, revolution becomes a right."--  Victor Hugo


"The best defense against usurpatory government is an assertive citizenry." ---  William F. Buckley

[newman]

“You can’t teach a monkey to speak and you can’t teach an Arab to be democratic. You’re dealing with a culture of thieves and robbers. Muhammad, their prophet, was a robber and a killer and a liar. The Arab destroys everything he touches!”---Moshe Feiglin

[Alexander]

Very interesting topic newman. I like the George Orwell quote. He has some great ones to his credit.

"Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind."  --  George Orwell

The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.  -- Plato

The time is coming when people will be insane and when they see someone who is not insane they will attack them saying: You are insane because you are not like us.  -- Abba Anthony

[newman]

"A free people ought not only to be armed and disciplined, but they should have sufficient arms and ammunition to maintain a status of independence from any who might attempt to abuse them, which would include their own government." ---George Washington

[newman]

First they came for the Jews
and I did not speak out
because I was not a Jew.
Then they came for the Communists
and I did not speak out
because I was not a Communist.
Then they came for the trade unionists
and I did not speak out
because I was not a trade unionist.
Then they came for me
and there was no one left
to speak out for me.


Pastor Martin Niemöller

[Sarah]

First they came for the Jews
and I did not speak out
because I was not a Jew.
Then they came for the Communists
and I did not speak out
because I was not a Communist.
Then they came for the trade unionists
and I did not speak out
because I was not a trade unionist.
Then they came for me
and there was no one left
to speak out for me.


Pastor Martin Niemöller

Thats a good one.

Has anybody here read, "Down and Out in Paris and London," by George Orwell?

[raiseyourfist]

Evil only exists in the world if good people do nothing.... i guess that is what being a JTFer is all about.. standing up for the truth

[newman]

Sarah:"Has anybody here read, "Down and Out in Paris and London," by George Orwell?"

I should. We ALL should read everything Orwell wrote. He was ahead of his time.

[newman]

Evil only exists in the world if good people do nothing.... i guess that is what being a JTFer is all about.. standing up for the truth

Absolutely right. Here is THE quote:

"All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing." (Edmund Burke)

[newman]

"The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil, but because of those who look on and do nothing." ---  Albert Einstein

"The more I study science, the more I believe in God."--  Albert Einstein

"Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind."  ----Albert Einstein

"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." ---  Albert Einstein

       
 

[newman]

"When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years."         
-----Mark Twain

[Joe Schmo]

"Never be jealous.  It is a confession that you've been conquered."

A. Scriabin

[Joe Schmo]

"YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA   
HOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!"

Slim Pickens

[Joe Schmo]

"These proceedings are concluded."

Gen. Douglas MacArthur

[Joe Schmo]

"This thing'll hurt somebody."

Bud Dwyer

[Joe Schmo]

"They wanted to play, but I didn't.  So we didn't play no more."

Richard Kuklinski

[Joe Schmo]

"That was a stupid thing I did."

David Alan Kirwan (after diving into the Celestine Pool at Yellowstone National Park)

[newman]

Scriabin, Old Boy.....

Thanks for your effort but these quotes of yours are a bit on the LAME side.

[Joe Schmo]

Scriabin, Old Boy.....

Thanks for your effort but these quotes of yours are a bit on the LAME side.

Sorry if I ruffled your overly sensitive feathers, Newman.

[newman]

Scriabin, Old Boy.....

Thanks for your effort but these quotes of yours are a bit on the LAME side.

Sorry if I ruffled your overly sensitive feathers, Newman.

Nonsense, Old Chap.

Lemme show you how it's done:

"A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on."  --- Winston Churchill

"Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has no heart; and any man who is over 30, and is not a conservative, has no brains." --- Winston Churchill

"We contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle." --- Winston Churchill

[Joe Schmo]

Scriabin, Old Boy.....

Thanks for your effort but these quotes of yours are a bit on the LAME side.

Sorry if I ruffled your overly sensitive feathers, Newman.

Nonsense, Old Chap.

Lemme show you how it's done:

"A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on."  --- Winston Churchill

"Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has no heart; and any man who is over 30, and is not a conservative, has no brains." --- Winston Churchill

"We contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle." --- Winston Churchill

Yes, but these have all been heard before.

[Joe Schmo]

Scriabin, Old Boy.....

Thanks for your effort but these quotes of yours are a bit on the LAME side.

You said 'great or memorable'.

[newman]

Scriabin, Old Boy.....

Thanks for your effort but these quotes of yours are a bit on the LAME side.

You said 'great or memorable'.

'And'...not 'or'.

........and you can't beat the classics.

[Alex]

"I have only advocated war as a means of peace."

--Ulysses S. Grant.