post your fav quotes

[wonderworld]

thought I'll start a little positive thread, post your fav quote below, can be about anything.

"Just be happy, and if you can't be happy, do things that make you happy. Or do nothing with the people that make you happy. There was so much more i wanted to say, and maybe I'll send another one of these if anything happens, I love you and I hope you turn out good."

 

[Deleted member 19276]

I can't directly think of one for some reason at the moment, but this made me smile! Thank you, for sharing it! :)

 

[SipSop]

"Everything has a use, and a way to destroy it."

 

[Sensei]

"Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away." – Philip K. Dick

 

[Lostandlooking]

"Power is being able to say complete and utter nonsense and have it be believed, powerlessness is where no matter how much cogent evidence and proof one has, to not be believed."
–Catharine A. MacKinnon

 

[deadgirlahsatan]

" It always seems impossible until it is done."

Nelson Mandela

 

[Viro_Major]

Easy one. Means so much to me :
"La révolution sera la floraison de l'humanité comme l'amour est la floraison est du coeur"
>> "The revolution will be the flowering of mankind as love is the flowering of the heart"

"At the bottom of my revolt against the forts, I find as far back as I can remember the horror of the tortures inflicted on the animals.
From the frog that the peasants cut in half, leaving the upper half to drag itself in the sun, its eyes horribly out, its arms trembling, seeking to burrow itself under the earth, to the goose whose legs are nailed, to the horse that is made to exhaust by leeches or search by the horns of bulls, the beast undergoes, lamentably, the torture inflicted by man.
And the fiercer a man is towards the beast, the more he crawls before the men who dominate him."

"Simple, strong, loving art and the ideal, brave and free too, the woman of tomorrow will neither want to dominate nor be dominated"

All 3 are from Louise Michel.

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(One a bit provocative for this board ? ^^) "If you want to be happy, be it" ~ Leon Tolstoi

"To make enemies, you don't have to go to war, you just have to say what you think". ~ Marthin Luther King

"The biggest failure is not having the courage to dare." ~ Abbé Pierre

 

[Despairing]

"We suffer more in imagination than in reality" Seneca

 

[Viro_Major]

"Power is being able to say complete and utter nonsense and have it be believed, powerlessness is where no matter how much cogent evidence and proof one has, to not be believed."
–Catharine A. MacKinnon

"The media's the most powerful entity on earth. They have the power to make the innocent guilty and to make the guilty innocent, and that's power. Because they control the minds of the masses."

"If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing."

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"There is no better than adversity. Every defeat, every heartbreak, every loss, contains its own seed, its own lesson on how to improve your performance the next time."

"A man who stands for nothing, will fall for anything"

"If you have no critics, you'll likely have no success"

"Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today."

"Usually when people are sad, they don't do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change."

"I'm for truth, no matter who tells it. I'm for justice, no matter who it's for or against"

"Be peaceful, be courteous, obey the law, respect everyone ; but if someone puts his hands on you, send him to the cemetery"

All from...

Spoiler

 

[mahakaliSS_MahaDurga]

An immense hatred keeps me alive... I would live for a thousand years if I were certain of seeing the whole world croak.
― Louis-Ferdinand Céline

 

[Shinkansen]

" Every man dies. Not every man really lives."

Braveheart.​

 

[Isadeth]

"I love you today, more than yesterday, but not as much as tomorrow."

And...

"Life is a song, love is the music"

♡

 

[mahakaliSS_MahaDurga]

"We're all going to die, all of us, what a circus! That alone should make us love each other but it doesn't. We are terrorized and flattened by trivialities, we are eaten up by nothing."
― Charles Bukowski

 

[Throwawaysoul]

"Every breath is a choice. Every minute is a choice. To be or not to be. Every time you don't throw yourself down the stairs, that's a choice. Every time you don't crash your car, you re-enlist."
-Chuck Palahniuk, from the book Survivor

 

[mahakaliSS_MahaDurga]

"After a sleepless night, the people in the street seem automatons. No one seems to breathe, to walk. Each looks as if he is worked by clockwork: nothing spontaneous; mechanical smiles, spectral gesticulations. Yourself a specter, how would you see others as alive?" - Emil Cioran

 

[Funkymonks]

A persons a person, no matter how small

dr Seuss

 

[mahakaliSS_MahaDurga]

"I know in a way I never knew before that there is nowhere for me to go, nothing for me to do, and no one for me to know. The voice in my head keeps reciting these old principles of mine. The voice is his voice, and the voice is also my voice. And there are other voices, voices I have never heard before, voices that seem to be either dead or dying in a great moonlit darkness. More than ever, some sort of new arrangement seems in order, some dramatic and unknown arrangement -- anything to find release from this heartbreaking sadness I suffer every minute of the day (and night), this killing sadness that feels as if it will never leave me no matter where I go or what I do or whom I may ever know."
― Thomas Ligotti

 

[Despairing]

"The thought of suicide is a great consolation: by means of it one gets through many a dark night." – Friedrich Nietzsche.

 

[Viro_Major]

In a gentle way, you can shake the world. ~ Gandhi

 

[mahakaliSS_MahaDurga]

"Some lose all mind and become soul, insane.
Some lose all soul and become mind, intellectual.
Some lose both and become accepted"
― Charles Bukowski

 

[Mustkeyknow]

The so-called 'psychotically depressed' person who tries to kill herself doesn't do so out of quote 'hopelessness' or any abstract conviction that life's assets and debits do not square. And surely not because death seems suddenly appealing. The person in whom Its invisible agony reaches a certain unendurable level will kill herself the same way a trapped person will eventually jump from the window of a burning high-rise. Make no mistake about people who leap from burning windows. Their terror of falling from a great height is still just as great as it would be for you or me standing speculatively at the same window just checking out the view; i.e. the fear of falling remains a constant. The variable here is the other terror, the fire's flames: when the flames get close enough, falling to death becomes the slightly less terrible of two terrors. It's not desiring the fall; it's terror of the flames. And yet nobody down on the sidewalk, looking up and yelling 'Don't!' and 'Hang on!', can understand the jump. Not really. You'd have to have personally been trapped and felt flames to really understand a terror way beyond falling.

David Foster Wallace

 

[GoodPersonEffed]

The people of Burma had wearied of a precarious state of passive apprehension where they were 'as water in the cupped hands' of the powers that be.

Emerald cool we may be
As water in cupped hands
But oh that we might be
As splinters of glass In cupped hands.

Glass splinters, the smallest with its sharp, glinting power to defend itself against hands that try to crush, could be seen as a vivid symbol of the spark of courage that is an essential attribute of those who would free themselves from the grip of oppression.

- Aung San Suu Kyi

 

[waterbottleman]

Life is a bitch and then you die

 

[GoodPersonEffed]

It is far more wretched to harm than to be harmed.

- Seneca

 

[Xiaomi]

Only the dead have seen the end of war
- Plato

 

[Susannah]

"Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards."
Søren Kierkegaard

 

[Viro_Major]

It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society. ~ Jiddu Krishnamurti

 

[Viro_Major]

Only the dead have seen the end of war
- Plato

I think if I would be enrolled into a conflict against my will, I'd consider to knock out all my brothers in arms before it begins, to prevent leaks.
Proud of the fact that my country has no army, although I'm not blinded there's a context that explains it.

From memory, but don't remember the author:
"We should never give power to those who claim it. These people are precisely the least able to govern"

 

[Viro_Major]

List of wars involving the United States - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

In roughly 2.5 centuries, there's approximately 5 years when USA hasn't been engaged in open wars, if not involved in multiple fronts at the same time.

"Everyone's worried about stopping terrorism. Well, there's really an easy way: Stop participating in it."

"It's not radical Islam that worries the US -- it's independence"

"For the powerful, crimes are those that others commit."

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"If you are not offending people who ought to be offended, you're doing something wrong."

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"Students who acquire large debts putting themselves through school are unlikely to think about changing society. When you trap people in a system of debt, they can't afford the time to think."

"The whole educational and professional training system is a very elaborate filter, which just weeds out people who are too independent, and who think for themselves, and who don't know how to be submissive, and so on -- because they're dysfunctional to the institutions"

"If voting could actually change anything, it would be illegal"

"All over the place, from the popular culture to the propaganda system, there is constant pressure to make people feel that they are helpless, that the only role they can have is to ratify decisions and to consume."

"The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum - even encourage the more critical and dissident views. That gives people the sense that there's free thinking going on, while all the time the presuppositions of the system are being reinforced by the limits put on the range of the debate."

"The world is a very puzzling place. If you're not willing to be puzzled, you just become a replica of someone else's mind"

"If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all."

Noam Chomsky

 

[Sinai Silence]

I have no quotes to share myself but someone got the Hitler quote; 'He alone, who owns the youth, gains the future' in the school yearbook for our last year. By saying it was from Ghandi instead, idk how he got away with it tbh