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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. Baff

    Baff Well-Known Member

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    Keeping it Roman.
    I think someone on this forum has a good one on their sig I've nabbed for my own use.

    Talk not of laws to those of us with swords.
    Pompey.
     
    Baff, May 25, 2017
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  2. Bowerbird

    Bowerbird Well-Known Member

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    Never enter a barefoot arse kicking contest with a porcupine

    Terry Pratchett
     
    Bowerbird, May 25, 2017
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  3. Bowerbird

    Bowerbird Well-Known Member

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    And one of my favourites from Robert Hienlien

    An insult is like wine. It only affects if accepted
     
    Bowerbird, May 25, 2017
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  4. Derideo_Te

    Derideo_Te Well-Known Member

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    Sticking with Terry Pratchett...

    "There is no Justice, just us!"
     
    Derideo_Te, May 25, 2017
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  5. Pycckia

    Pycckia Well-Known Member

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    "Politics: The strife of interest masquerading as the contest of principals."

    Ambrose Bierce The Devil's Dictionary
     
    Pycckia, May 25, 2017
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    Sanskrit Well-Known Member

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    No big surprise that there are people out there trying to vote themselves the money of others who don't like that quote. Turns out the source is a newspaperman, Elmer T. Petersen. Doesn't change the sentiment and its application today.

    Here's another one I "dug up"

    "Pedantry is the stock in trade of small minds."

    Sanskrit
     
    Sanskrit, May 25, 2017
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  7. Derideo_Te

    Derideo_Te Well-Known Member

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    “To a great mind, nothing is little,' remarked Holmes, sententiously.”

    ― Arthur Conan Doyle, A Study in Scarlet
     
    Derideo_Te, May 25, 2017
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  8. Bluebird

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    When your up to your ass in alligators, it is not the time to think that your original thought was to drain the swamp---
    (from a book of axioms)
    You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make him drink!
    ( from someone really smart)
     
    Bluebird, May 25, 2017
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  9. Bluebird

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    "If a problem causes many meetings, the meetings eventually become more important than the problem"
    Hendrickson's Law
     
    Bluebird, May 25, 2017
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  10. Bluebird

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    Adam was but human--this explains it all-He did not want the apple for the apple's sake, he wanted it,because it was forbidden
    Mark Twain--
     
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    This one from GK Chesterton explains conservatism in a nutshell:

    “In the matter of reforming things, as distinct from deforming them, there is one plain and simple principle; a principle which will probably be called a paradox. There exists in such a case a certain institution or law; let us say, for the sake of simplicity, a fence or gate erected across a road. The more modern type of reformer goes gaily up to it and says, ‘I don’t see the use of this; let us clear it away.’ To which the more intelligent type of reformer will do well to answer: ‘If you don’t see the use of it, I certainly won’t let you clear it away. Go away and think. Then, when you can come back and tell me that you do see the use of it, I may allow you to destroy it.’”
     
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    I spent a lot of money on Booze, Birds and Fast Cars.
    The rest I just squandered    .

    - George Best
     
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    Too many punks, not enough bullets.

    Dirty Harry.
     
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    Imagine Tomorrow without argument,How disagreeable!
    Joseph Conrad
     
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    Baff Well-Known Member

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    So many big words. I am blind! and stupids! Interesting though.
     
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    Life is like a box of chocolates - you never know what you're gonna get. :icon_picknose:
     
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    It wasn't whiskey that killed old Bill

    Neither did it take his breath

    A little green fly flew up his

    asthma killed him...

    — Redd Foxx
     
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    The full quotation of my sig:
    “Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience. They may be more likely to go to Heaven yet at the same time likelier to make a Hell of earth. This very kindness stings with intolerable insult. To be "cured" against one's will and cured of states which we may not regard as disease is to be put on a level of those who have not yet reached the age of reason or those who never will; to be classed with infants, imbeciles, and domestic animals.”

    ― C.S. Lewis, God in the Dock: Essays on Theology (Making of Modern Theology)
     
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    "Our swollen budgets constantly have been misrepresented to the public. Our government has kept us in a perpetual state of fear — kept us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor — with the cry of grave national emergency. Always there has been some terrible evil at home or some monstrous foreign power that was going to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it by furnishing the exorbitant funds demanded. Yet, in retrospect, these disasters seem never to have happened, seem never to have been quite real."
    Douglas MacArthur
     
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  20. The Mandela Effect

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    Dude the quote is now and "always has been" in the forest Gump movie: "Life was like a box of chocolates".
     
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  21. Canell

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    Sorry, was I supposed to lay out my personal wisdom only? :aww:
     
    Canell, May 26, 2017
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    I have 2.

    "Beware the fury of a patient man"
    John Dryden

    "We sleep safely in our bed because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do use harm"
    Attributed to George Orwell, but it's not known for sure.
     
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  23. The Mandela Effect

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    Just felt like being a pain and it's also Mandela Effect related so I just had to do it. ;)
     
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    cyndibru Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    “Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety
    deserve neither liberty nor safety." -- Benjamin Franklin

    "Leave the gun, take the cannoli". -- Clemenza
     
    cyndibru, May 26, 2017
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    Why is there always no rum? -Captain J. Sparrow.
     
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