favorite controversial/inflammatory/ twisted/wrong/political quotes

BlurOfSerenity

BlurOfSerenity

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this thread presents you with both the time AND the place to spout quotes that just aren't appropriate anywhere else. (if that ever normally stops you, that is).

but no flaming and stuff. and no arguments. either take it to pm or other non-board discussion method, or if you really want, start a new thread.
my vision for this thread is to have it mainly be quotes.
cos quotes rock.

i'll start.

"if you're against abortions... dont have one".

there, i think i started out sufficiently.
 
I wish everybody would have to have an electric thing implanted in our heads that gave us a shoc k whenever we did something to disobey the president. Then somehow I get myself elected president.
- Jack Handley

You can't trample infidels when you're a tortoise. I mean, all you could do is give them a meaningful look.
- Terry Pratchett
 
Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote.
--Benjamin Franklin

They that can give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty or safety.
--Benjamin Franklin
 
I like those 2 Squiggs. especially in these days.




Ben Franklin:

Those that would give up essential liberties for a little security deserve neither liberty nor security.



Nietzsche: God is dead


Jesus: to die for a friend is the greatest love one can show


I dont know who said it first but
Fighting for war is like fucking for peace
 
"Any quote taken from pre-1940 and attributed to Anon.........was written by a woman" - Anon
 
The American people are going to have to be more patient than ever with the efforts of not just ourselves, but the efforts of our allies, to get them running and to find them and to hunt them down.
--George W. Bush, Sept. 17, 2001
 
“Even peace may be purchased at too high a price.“
Benjamin Franklin
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"War is an ugly thing, but it is not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. A man who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing he cares about more than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature who has no chance of being free, unless made so by the exertions of better men than himself."
-- John Stuart Mill
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"All propaganda must be popular and its intellectual level must be adjusted to the most limited intelligence among those it is addressed to. Consequently, the greater the mass it is intended to reach, the lower its purely intellectual level will have to be. But if, as in propaganda for sticking out a war, the aim is to influence a whole people, we must avoid excessive intellectual demands on our public, and too much caution cannot be extended in this direction."
-Hitler on Propaganda
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"Beware the leader who bangs the drums of war in order to whip the citizenry into a patriotic fervor, for patriotism is indeed a double-edged sword. It both emboldens the blood, just as it narrows the mind.
"And when the drums of war have reached a fever pitch and the blood boils with hate and the mind has closed, the leader will have no need in seizing the rights of the citizenry. Rather, the citizenry, infused with fear and blinded by patriotism, will offer up all of their rights unto the leader and gladly so.
"How do I know? For this is what I have done. And I am Caeser
-Not Ceaser, not Shakespeare, nobody seems to know who it was.
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Robert Fisk, the only Western journalist reporting from Kandahar province, spoke to a woman escaping the U.S. bombing: "There wasn't much left of my son...when the roof hit him, he was turned to meat and all I could see were bones. His name was Sherif. He was a year and a half old.''
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Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar - Sigmund Freud
In general the art of government consists in taking as much money as possible from one class of citizens to give it to the other. - Voltaire

It is a mistake to assume that government must necessarily last forever. The institution marks a certain stage of civilization—is natural to a particular phase of human development. It is not essential, but incidental. As amongst the Bushmen we find a state antecedent to government, so may there be one in which it shall have become extinct. - Herbert Spencer

Now, legal plunder can be committed in an infinite number of ways. Thus we have an infinite number of plans for organizing it: tariffs, protection, benefits, subsidies, encouragements, progressive taxation, public schools, guaranteed jobs, guaranteed profits, minimum wages, a right to relief, a right to the tools of labor, free credit, and so on, and so on. All these plans as a whole—with their common aim of legal plunder—constitute socialism. - Frederic Bastiat (The Law)

The marvel of all history is the patience with which men and women submit to burdens unnecessarily laid upon them by their governments. - William H. Borah
 
these are all from Nietzsche


One is most dishonest to his god he is not allowed to sin


Under peaceful conditions a warlike man sets upon himself


With ones principles one wants to bully one's habbits, or justify, honour, scold or conceal them: two men with the same principles probably aim with them at something basically different.



It is terrible to die of thirst in the ocean. Do you have to salt your truth so heavily that it does not quench thirst?


To be ashamed of one's immorality that is a step on the staircase at whose end is one is also ashamed of one's morality


If we train our conscience it kisses us while it hurts us


In music the passions enjoy themselves


Our vanity is hardest to wound when our pride has just been hurt.


The holy lie offends the taste of the free spirit who has the piety search for knowledge even more than the unholy lie. Hence his profound lack of understanding for the church a characteristic of the "free spirit": his unfreedom



There is no moral phenomena at all, but instead a moral interpertation of phenomena




The disgust with dirt is so great it prevents us from cleaning ourselves: from "justifying" ourselves


The more abstract truth is that you would teach, the more you have to seduce your senses to it.



Whoever fights monsters must see to it that one does not become a monster. And when you look long into an abyss, the abyss also looks into you.


Our neighbour(in the religion sense) is not our neighbour but his neighbour.

What a time experiences as evil is usually and untimely echo of what was formerly experienced as good. the atavism of a more ancient ideal.


Jesus said to the Jews: "The law was for servants-love God as I love him-as his son! What are morals to us sons of god!


Perhaps nobody has been truthful enough about what "truthfulness" is


It is inhuman to bless where one is cursed.


In the end one loves one's desire not what is desired.



The high spirits of kindness may look like malice




"I dont like him.--"why"---"I am not equal to him."
Has any human ever answered that way?
 
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