✠ Favorite quotes

[PHDNM]

They who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.

Benjamin Franklin

[onder]

"If you want to see what children can do, you must stop giving them things." (Norman Douglas)

"We spend the first twelve months of our children's lives teaching them to walk and talk and the next twelve telling them to sit down and shut up." (Phyllis Diller)

"You don't really understand human nature unless you know why a child on a merry-go-round will wave at his parents every time around - and why his parents will always wave back." (William D. Tammeus)

[onder]

"Poverty exists not because we cannot feed the poor, but because we cannot satisfy the rich." (Anonymous)

[PHDNM]

A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears not a traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to fear. The traitor is the plague.

― Marcus Tullius Cicero. 58 BC

[Incal]

«If they're black, then it's a gang, if they're Italian, it's a mob, but if they're Jewish, it's a coincidence and you should never speak about it.» (Dave Chappelle)

[capocannoniere]

Some by Fyodor Dostoevski

"What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love."

"Man, so long as he remains free, has no more constant and agonizing anxiety than find as quickly as possible someone to worship."

"... active love is a harsh and fearful thing compared with the love in dreams. Love in dreams thirsts for immediate action, quickly performed, and with everyone watching. Indeed, it will go as far as the giving even of one's life, provided it does not take long but is soon over, as on stage, and eveyone is looking on and praising. Whereas active love is labor and persistence, and for some people, perhaps, a whole science."

"You cannot imagine what sorrow and anger seize one's whole soul when a great idea, which one has long and piously revered, is picked up by some bunglers and dragged into the street, to more fools like themselves, and one suddenly meets it in the flea market, unrecognizable, dirty, askew, absurdly presented, without proportion, without harmony, a toy for stupid children."

[Dick]

"Technology has ruined everything. Even war."
Ernst Junger

[PHDNM]

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[capocannoniere]

Fuck'em if they can't take a joke.
(J.R. "Bob" Dobbs)