post your fav quotes

[Susannah]

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

Ah, Chomsky used to be one of my favorites intellectuals. Thanks for reminding me.

 

[Despairing]

"Can you no longer see a road to freedom? It's right in front of you. You need only turn over your wrists." ― Seneca

 

[Viro_Major]

"Well begun is half done" ~ Aristote

 

[Viro_Major]

"In a time of universal deceipt, telling the truth is a revolutionary act" ~ George Orwell

"I prefer liberty with danger than peace with slavery" ~ Jean-Jacques Rousseau

"Keep your face always towards the sunshine - and shadows will fall behind you" ~ Walt Whitman

"Do good to do well" ~ Alex Machinsky

 

[Wincombe00]

"It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society"

 

[Sarahlynn]

I love the show Bojack Horseman (profile pic is fanart from the series, not mine). So many good quotes, but not at a kinda deep/intellectual level as many others posted here though.

"The universe is a cruel, uncaring void. The key to being happy isn't a search for meaning. It's to just keep yourself busy with unimportant nonsense, and eventually, you'll be dead."

"You know, sometimes I feel like I was born with a leak, and any goodness I started with just slowly spilled out of me, and now it's all gone. And I'll never get it back in me. It's too late."

"you come by it honestly, the ugliness inside of you. You were born broken, that's your birthright. And now you can fill your life with projects... your books and your movies and your little girlfriends, but it won't make you whole. You're BoJack Horseman. There's no cure for that."

"My point is, I don't understand how people live. It's amazing to me that people wake up every morning and say "Yeah! Another day! Let's do it!!" How do people do it? I don't know how."

 

[Viro_Major]

"With our thoughts, we create the world" ~ Buddha

 

[BipolarGuy]

"Don't believe everything you read on the internet"
- Abraham Lincoln

 

[VIBRITANNIA]

"That Justice is a blind goddess
Is a thing to which we black are wise:
Her bandage hides two festering sores
That once perhaps were eyes."

- Langston Hughes

 

[HowardRatner]

I strongly recommend Borges if you haven't read him, I've loved this phrase since I was 13 years old.
"Let heaven exist, though my own place be in hell." - Jorge Luis Borges

"The world is hell, and men are divided into tormented souls and tormenting devils." - Arthur Schopenhauer

 

[Viro_Major]

 

[icanhasnick]

used to be

But you recovered (:

Selected quotes from the trilema tagline:

"Evil broadly consists of people who
aren't very good and don't want to get any better."

"Mediocrity is not a lack of intelligence.
Mediocrity is intelligence entirely dedicated to self-preservation."

"Mentula cum doleat imperio, tibi, lector, culus. Non sum diuinus, sed scio quid facias."
(In translation: Stop being fucking lobotomized lemmings!)

 

[TimeToBiteTheDust]

"If you can't fix what's broken then you'll go insane." Mad Max

 

[CharlieBrown]

— Charles M Schulz

 

[User_01]

'It's better to burn out than to fade away' - Neil Young

 

[Dead beat dad]

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."

'we make a living by what we get. We make a life by what we give'

Winston Churchill (I think)

DBD

 

[Dr Iron Arc]

Here's just a few...

"The point is, people improve when they get external love and support. How can we hold it against them when they don't?"

-Michael in The Good Place

"All humans are aware of death. So we're all a little bit sad all the time. That's just the deal . . . but we don't get offered any other ones. And if you try and ignore your sadness, it just ends up leaking out of you anyway. I've been there. And everybody's been there. So don't fight it."

— Eleanor, also from The Good Place

"Did you notice what went wrong in that scene? Ordinarily, Billy would work hard to make money from his paper route. Then he'd use the money to buy dinner for Mavis, thus earning the slim chance to perform the reproductive act. But in a world where teens can date robots, why should he bother? Why should anyone bother? Let's take a look at Billy's planet a year later. Where are all the football stars? And where are the biochemists? They're trapped! Trapped in a soft, vice-like grip of robot lips. All civilization was just an effort to impress the opposite sex ... and sometimes the same sex.

Now, let's skip forward 80 years into the future. Where is Billy?...
...The next day, Billy's planet was destroyed by aliens. Have you guessed the name of Billy's planet? It was Earth. Don't. date. robots!"

-From an educational film within Futurama

 

[Deleted member 1465]

"The greatest victory is that which requires no battle."

"No job is too big, no fee is too big."

And of course...
"If you can keep your head, when all about you are losing theirs, then you probably haven't understood the seriousness of the situation."

 

[deadgirlahsatan]

 

[HowardRatner]

I just read a quote from the Hunger Games trilogy and I immediately thought about this thread:

"Our lives are not measured in years, but are measured in the lives of people we touch around us."

 

[Mr2005]

"Good men plant trees the shade of which they'll never sit in " - Homer
"The wars of the world don't come from outer space. People create them who have a war inside themselves" - Kitaro

 

[Iwanttooffmyself]

"When I look up into the night sky, it reminds me that people are just ashes of dead stars. We are just a collection of atoms that come together for a brief period of time, and then... we fall apart. When all of this is over, and we are dispersed back into nothingness... we have a clean slate. It's like having all your sins wiped away."

— Krystal Sutherland

 

[Deleted member 13412]

"evryone u meet is fighting a battle u know nothing about. be kind. always." <3 (from the show "skam")

 

[Viro_Major]

"The ability to observe without evaluating is the highest form of intelligence."

"There is no such thing as permanence at all. Everything is constantly changing. Everything is in a flux. Because you cannot face the impermanence of all relationships, you invent sentiments, romance and dramatic emotions to give them certainty. Therefore you are always in conflict."

"When you call yourself an Indian or a Muslim or a Christian or a European, or anything else, you are being violent. Do you see why it is violent? Because you are separating yourself from the rest of mankind. When you separate yourself by belief, by nationality, by tradition, it breeds violence. So a man who is seeking to understand violence does not belong to any country, to any religion, to any political party or partial system; he is concerned with the total understanding of mankind."

"Freedom and love go together. Love is not a reaction. If I love you because you love me, that is mere trade, a thing to be bought in the market; it is not love. To love is not to ask anything in return, not even to feel that you are giving something- and it is only such love that can know freedom."

"There is great happiness in not wanting, in not being something, in not going somewhere"

"Real learning comes about when the competitive spirit has ceased."

"Governments want efficient technicians, not human beings, because human beings become dangerous to governments – and to organized religions as well. That is why governments and religious organizations seek to control education."

"Tradition becomes our security, and when the mind is secure it is in decay."

"You can only be afraid of what you think you know"

"Happiness is strange; it comes when you are not seeking it. When you are not making an effort to be happy, then unexpectedly, mysteriously, happiness is there, born of purity, of a loveliness of being."

"It is only when the mind is free from the old that it meets everything anew, and in that there is joy."

"The ending of sorrow is the beginning of wisdom. Knowledge is always within the shadow of ignorance. Meditation is freedom from thought and a movement in the ecstasy of truth. Meditation is explosion of intelligence."

"Do not repeat after me words that you do not understand. Do not merely put on a mask of my ideas, for it will be an illusion and you will thereby deceive yourself."

"I maintain that Truth is a pathless land, and you cannot approach it by any path whatsoever, by any religion, by any sect. ... The moment you follow someone you cease to follow Truth."

"To transform the world, we must begin with ourselves; and what is important in beginning with ourselves is the intention. The intention must be to understand ourselves and not to leave it to others to transform themselves or to bring about a modified change through revolution, either of the left or of the right. It is important to understand that this is our responsibility, yours and mine..."

~ Jiddah Krishnamurti ~