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Your favorite political/philosophical quotes?

Discussion in 'Political Opinions & Beliefs' started by modernpaladin, May 20, 2017.

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  1. Just_a_Citizen

    Just_a_Citizen Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    Meet the New Boss, Same as the Old Boss. - R. Daltry.
     
    Just_a_Citizen, May 20, 2017
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    Let China sleep, for when she awakens, the whole world will tremble.
    I Don't remember who said this
     
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    Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead
    Teddy Roosevelt?
     
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  4. Just_a_Citizen

    Just_a_Citizen Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    This is what you want..... This is what you get. John Lydon.
     
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  5. modernpaladin

    modernpaladin Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    "To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive."
    -Robert Louis Stevenson
     
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    modernpaladin Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    It was a US revolutionary (or maybe civil) war captain.

    (looked it up) Rear Admiral David Glasgow Farragut in 1862 (so, civil war)
     
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    I just fired the head of the FBI. He was a real nut job
    Guess who?
     
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    modernpaladin Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    “All right, they’re on our left, they’re on our right, they’re in front of us, they’re behind us…they can’t get away this time.”
    – Lewis B. Chesty Puller, USMC
     
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  9. Liberty4Ransom

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    Go to heaven for the climate, and hell for the company.
    Mark Twain
     
    Liberty4Ransom, May 20, 2017
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    HereWeGoAgain Banned

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    Speaking as a five-year sugar daddy, I can vouch for that one! :D
     
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    HereWeGoAgain Banned

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    "I don't like to commit myself about heaven and hell - you see, I have friends in both places." - Mark Twain
     
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    There's one in my sig, obviously. Here's another:

    [I]f you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.​

    ~ Nietzsche

    And another:

    “Government, like dress, is the badge of lost innocence; the palaces of kings are built upon the ruins of the bowers of paradise.”
    ​
    ~ Tom Paine

    And another:

    “All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone.”
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    ~ Blaise Pascal

    The author is kidding himself.
     
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    HereWeGoAgain Banned

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    ,Been there done that on both counts. No thanks. :D
     
    HereWeGoAgain, May 20, 2017
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    After we broke up, you slept with all my friends. Thankfully I wasn't very popular.
    Me to my exgirlfriend.
     
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    "Be Excellent To Each Other." --Bill S. Preston, Esquire.
     
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    To fight this recession the Fed needs more than a snapback; it needs soaring household spending to offset moribund business investment. And to do that, as Paul McCulley of Pimco put it, Alan Greenspan needs to create a housing bubble to replace the Nasdaq bubble.

    -Paul Krugman 2002

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    “There are some ideas so wrong that only a very intelligent person could believe in them.”


    George Orwell

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    The Middle East is obviously an issue that has plagued the region for centuries"--Barack Obama,

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    So little pains do the vulgar take in the investigation of truth, accepting readily the first story that comes to hand.”

    Thucydides (when asked about the Russia Trump story)
     
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    The best books[] are those that tell you what you know already.​

    ~ George Orwell
     
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    She must have been very popular.
     
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    The moral difference between a soldier and a civilian is that the soldier accepts personal responsibility for the safety of the body politic of which he is a member. The civilian does not.


    Robert Heinlein
     
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    Life is Hard....Then you Die.
     
    tecoyah, May 20, 2017
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    Every population has the government it deserves.
     
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    “The society which scorns excellence in Plumbing as a humble activity and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because it is an
    exalted activity will have neither good Plumbing nor good philosophy: neither its pipes nor its theories will hold water.”

    –John William Gardner
     
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    Yes, but ...

    ... it is harder for stupid people.
     
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    Not if they are too stupid to know it's hard....."Ignorance is Bliss".
     
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