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Louise · 04-05-2007, 01:00 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by tom8517

"The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonley often and sometimes frightend. But no price is too high to pay for the privelege of owning yourself"

Nietzsche

If I had to bet which of our members came up with this quote...I would have won!

"He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god"
Aristotle

Hellcat · 04-05-2007, 01:04 PM

If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself but to your own estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.

Marcus Aurelius

tom8517 · 04-05-2007, 01:09 PM

So what's your choice Lou, am I a beast or a god? I'd be comfortable with either.

04-05-2007, 01:32 PM

"In the end they will lay their freedom at our feet and say to us, 'Make us your slaves, but feed us.'" [Dosteovsky's 'Grand Inquisitor'] (No insult intended to those who seek slavery at this website. This is about the slavery by those who seek your life as well as your soul)

"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 Caesar." [Author unknown but if you think real hard it may awaken some idea in your mind about today.]

"If you love wealth more than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, depart from us in peace. We ask not your counsel nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you. May your chains rest lightly upon you and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen." [Samuel Adams]

The urge to save humanity is almost always only a false-face for the urge to rule it. [H.L. Mencken]

"Most people can't think, most of the remainder won't think, the small fraction who do think mostly can't do it very well. The extremely tiny fraction who think regularly, accurately, creatively, and without self-delusion- in the long run, these are the only people who count." [Robert Heinlein]

"In general the art of government consists in taking as much money as possible from one class of citizens to give to the other." [Voltaire]

"Do we really think that a government-dominated education is going to produce citizens capable of dominating their government, as the education of a truly vigilant self-governing people requires?" [Alan Keyes]

"The price of liberty is eternal vigilance." [Thomas Jefferson]

"The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities." [Ayn Rand]

"We must stop thinking of the individual and start thinking about what is best for society." [Hillary Clinton, 1993]

"America's abundance was created not by public sacrifices to 'the common good,' but by the productive genius of free men who pursued their own personal interests and the making of their own private fortunes. They did not starve the people to pay for America's industrialization. They gave the people better jobs, higher wages and cheaper goods with every new machine they invented, with every scientific discovery or technological advance -- and thus the whole country was moving forward and profiting, not suffering, every step of the way." [Ayn Rand]

"A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves money from the public treasure. From that moment on the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most money from the public treasury, with the result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy followed by a dictatorship. The average age of the world's great civilizations has been two hundred years. These nations have progressed through the following sequence: from bondage to spiritual faith, from spiritual faith to great courage, from courage to liberty, from liberty to abundance, from abundance to selfishness, from selfishness to complacency from complacency to apathy, from apathy to dependency, from dependency back to bondage."
[Alexander Tyler- writing about the fall of the Athenian Republic]

"Tyranny is always better organized than freedom." [Charles Peguy]

"Heaven doesn't want me and hell's afraid I'll take over." {Unknown}

somedude · 04-05-2007, 01:36 PM

"Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job." Restaurant At The End Of The Universe

Hellcat · 04-05-2007, 02:43 PM

Nice one SD....

*desperately resists the urge to quote from Hitchhikers*

somedude · 04-05-2007, 03:52 PM

"In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and has been widely regarded as a bad move." Restaurant At The End Of The Universe

Hellcat · 04-05-2007, 03:57 PM

Damn me for being so weak willed....

My doctor says that I have a malformed public-duty gland and a natural deficiency in moral fire and that I am therefore excused from saving universes.

Life, The Universe and Everything

The history of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is now so complicated that every time I tell it I contradict myself, and whenever I do get it right I'm misquoted. So the publication of this omnibus edition seemed like a good opportunity to set the record straight--or at least firmly crooked.

Douglas Adams

The knack of flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.

Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy

04-05-2007, 04:13 PM

In heaven:

The cops are Brits
The cooks are French
The mechanics are German
The lovers are Italian
all governed by the Swiss

In hell:

The cops are German
The cooks are Brits
The mechanics are French
The lovers are Swiss
all governed by the Italians

Oh and God created whisky so that the Irish would not take over the world.

Sliante'

Hellcat · 04-05-2007, 07:18 PM

*reaches for nearest bottle of Whisky

tom8517 · 04-05-2007, 07:30 PM

"We have always found the Irish a bit odd. They refuse to be English."

Winston Churchill

dashrendar44 · 04-05-2007, 07:37 PM

"I may not agree with what you have to say, but i defend to the death your right to say it!" ~ Voltaire

"SPARTANS! EAT UP AND DRINK HEARTY! FOR TONIGHT WE DINE IN HELL!" - Leonidas

"They will remeber Leonidas and his 300 Spartan spears, now let them taste 10 000 Spartan spears!" - Dilios

"We Spartans have descended from Hercules himself. Taught never to retreat, never to surrender. Taught that death in the battlefield is the greatest glory he could achieve in his life. Spartans: the finest soldiers the world has ever known." ~ Leonidas

the leonidas/dilios quotes were taken from 300 but are real quotes

Becka · 04-05-2007, 07:41 PM

Here's to the Welsh, who preyed upon their knees... and their neighbors.

The Scots, who kept the Sabbath... and anything else they could get their hands on.

The Irish, who never know what they wanted... but were willing to fight for it anyway.

And lastly the English, who considered themselves a self-made race... thereby relieving the Almighty of a responsibility.

A favorite toast of mine from one of my many Irish-American family members...

B.

sindyloo · 04-05-2007, 08:03 PM

The BEST part of you ran down your mothers leg!! full metal jacket.

"I am soley concerned about the best for our country and I pledge to you that with your help Germany will rise and be a power amongst the world!!.......Adolf Hitler...

dashrendar44 · 04-05-2007, 08:09 PM

"All people are worms, but i do believe that I am a Glow-worm" ~ Churchill

"To err, human; To forgive, divine" ~ i dont know XDDD

Capt. DooDah · 04-06-2007, 01:28 AM

There is no "I" in "TEAM"
But I see "U" twice in "FUCK-UP"

"In the history books I will be known as the "great communicator". Cuz that's what I do. I communicaters well. Make my point. Ya see? Like just last week, a few days ago. When I was in China last year. The King of China took me on a tour of all the real old China built stuff they got there. And when he showed me that great big stone fence they got to keep people out. I was very erect and desliceve with him. And I looked that king right at the eyes. And real firm like I told him,"Mr.China Man,TEAR DOWN THIS WALL!"
G.W. Bush

"You can lead a horticulture,
But you can't make her think."

Hellcat · 04-06-2007, 02:54 AM

Please provide the date of your death."
-from an IRS letter

"CAUTION: Knife is very sharp. Keep out of children" -- a typo (presumably)

"CAUTION: Cape does not enable user to fly!" -- Batman Costume warning label

"I have opinions of my own, strong opinions. But i don't always agree with them!" GW Bush

somedude · 04-06-2007, 03:09 AM

"I will go with you and stand by your side through all dangers." Anherru the Egyptian

Hellcat · 04-06-2007, 03:19 AM

Nice quote SD

Life is a hideous thing, and from the background behind what we know of it peer daemoniacal hints of truth which make it sometimes a thousandfold more hideous. Science, already oppressive with its shocking revelations, will perhaps be the ultimate exterminator of our human species -- if separate species we be -- for its reserve of unguessed horrors could never be borne by mortal brains if loosed upon the world.

H.P. Lovecraft

somedude · 04-06-2007, 03:34 AM

It's from the tale of the Book of Thoth! Here's another one...

"By the life of Pharaoh, tell me what you would have me do for you, and I will do it - if only you will tell me where the Book of Thoth is." Nefrekeptah

04-05-2007, 01:04 PM	#122
Hellcat At Rest Join Date: Jan 2007 Posts: 1,808 Reputation: 1841	If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself but to your own estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment. Marcus Aurelius __________________ â€œIf you should die before me, take my hand and ask if you could bring along a friendâ€

04-05-2007, 01:32 PM	#124
drmephisto Guest Posts: n/a	On freedom!! "In the end they will lay their freedom at our feet and say to us, 'Make us your slaves, but feed us.'" [Dosteovsky's 'Grand Inquisitor'] (No insult intended to those who seek slavery at this website. This is about the slavery by those who seek your life as well as your soul) "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 Caesar." [Author unknown but if you think real hard it may awaken some idea in your mind about today.] "If you love wealth more than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, depart from us in peace. We ask not your counsel nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you. May your chains rest lightly upon you and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen." [Samuel Adams] The urge to save humanity is almost always only a false-face for the urge to rule it. [H.L. Mencken] "Most people can't think, most of the remainder won't think, the small fraction who do think mostly can't do it very well. The extremely tiny fraction who think regularly, accurately, creatively, and without self-delusion- in the long run, these are the only people who count." [Robert Heinlein] "In general the art of government consists in taking as much money as possible from one class of citizens to give to the other." [Voltaire] "Do we really think that a government-dominated education is going to produce citizens capable of dominating their government, as the education of a truly vigilant self-governing people requires?" [Alan Keyes] "The price of liberty is eternal vigilance." [Thomas Jefferson] "The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities." [Ayn Rand] "We must stop thinking of the individual and start thinking about what is best for society." [Hillary Clinton, 1993] "America's abundance was created not by public sacrifices to 'the common good,' but by the productive genius of free men who pursued their own personal interests and the making of their own private fortunes. They did not starve the people to pay for America's industrialization. They gave the people better jobs, higher wages and cheaper goods with every new machine they invented, with every scientific discovery or technological advance -- and thus the whole country was moving forward and profiting, not suffering, every step of the way." [Ayn Rand] "A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves money from the public treasure. From that moment on the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most money from the public treasury, with the result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy followed by a dictatorship. The average age of the world's great civilizations has been two hundred years. These nations have progressed through the following sequence: from bondage to spiritual faith, from spiritual faith to great courage, from courage to liberty, from liberty to abundance, from abundance to selfishness, from selfishness to complacency from complacency to apathy, from apathy to dependency, from dependency back to bondage." [Alexander Tyler- writing about the fall of the Athenian Republic] "Tyranny is always better organized than freedom." [Charles Peguy] "Heaven doesn't want me and hell's afraid I'll take over." {Unknown}

04-05-2007, 01:36 PM	#125
somedude W.I.R. and Marshal Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Way out West!!!! Posts: 8,566 Reputation: 124981	"Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job." Restaurant At The End Of The Universe __________________ I'm a pervert and proud of it!

04-05-2007, 02:43 PM	#126
Hellcat At Rest Join Date: Jan 2007 Posts: 1,808 Reputation: 1841	Nice one SD.... desperately resists the urge to quote from Hitchhikers __________________ â€œIf you should die before me, take my hand and ask if you could bring along a friendâ€

04-05-2007, 03:52 PM	#127
somedude W.I.R. and Marshal Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Way out West!!!! Posts: 8,566 Reputation: 124981	"In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and has been widely regarded as a bad move." Restaurant At The End Of The Universe __________________ I'm a pervert and proud of it!

04-05-2007, 01:09 PM	#123
tom8517 Privileged Member Join Date: Nov 2006 Posts: 1,065 Reputation: 14858	So what's your choice Lou, am I a beast or a god? I'd be comfortable with either.

04-05-2007, 03:57 PM	#128
Hellcat At Rest Join Date: Jan 2007 Posts: 1,808 Reputation: 1841	Damn me for being so weak willed.... My doctor says that I have a malformed public-duty gland and a natural deficiency in moral fire and that I am therefore excused from saving universes. Life, The Universe and Everything The history of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is now so complicated that every time I tell it I contradict myself, and whenever I do get it right I'm misquoted. So the publication of this omnibus edition seemed like a good opportunity to set the record straight--or at least firmly crooked. Douglas Adams The knack of flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss. Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy __________________ â€œIf you should die before me, take my hand and ask if you could bring along a friendâ€

04-05-2007, 04:13 PM	#129
drmephisto Guest Posts: n/a	Heaven and Hell In heaven: The cops are Brits The cooks are French The mechanics are German The lovers are Italian all governed by the Swiss In hell: The cops are German The cooks are Brits The mechanics are French The lovers are Swiss all governed by the Italians Oh and God created whisky so that the Irish would not take over the world. Sliante' Last edited by drmephisto; 04-05-2007 at 04:16 PM.

04-05-2007, 07:18 PM	#130
Hellcat At Rest Join Date: Jan 2007 Posts: 1,808 Reputation: 1841	reaches for nearest bottle of Whisky __________________ â€œIf you should die before me, take my hand and ask if you could bring along a friendâ€*

04-05-2007, 07:30 PM	#131
tom8517 Privileged Member Join Date: Nov 2006 Posts: 1,065 Reputation: 14858	"We have always found the Irish a bit odd. They refuse to be English." Winston Churchill

04-05-2007, 07:37 PM	#132
dashrendar44 Kamina Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: Deep In The African Jungles Of China Posts: 2,733 Reputation: 12819	"I may not agree with what you have to say, but i defend to the death your right to say it!" ~ Voltaire "SPARTANS! EAT UP AND DRINK HEARTY! FOR TONIGHT WE DINE IN HELL!" - Leonidas "They will remeber Leonidas and his 300 Spartan spears, now let them taste 10 000 Spartan spears!" - Dilios "We Spartans have descended from Hercules himself. Taught never to retreat, never to surrender. Taught that death in the battlefield is the greatest glory he could achieve in his life. Spartans: the finest soldiers the world has ever known." ~ Leonidas the leonidas/dilios quotes were taken from 300 but are real quotes __________________ "Go beyond the impossible and kick reason to the curb!" ~ Kamina, Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann "I've been thinking with my gut since I was 14, and I've come to the conclusion that my guts have shit for brains." ~ Rob Gordon, High Fidelity "All men are potential rapists. ALL MEN. Even the pope!" ~ Shirley Valentine "When you're pushed, killing's as easy as breathing." ~ John Rambo, Rambo IV "I don't think I'm easy to talk about. I've got a very irregular head. And I'm not anything that you think I am anyway." ~ Syd Barrett, Rolling Stone, December 1971

04-05-2007, 07:41 PM	#133
Becka Immodest Mod Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Virginia Posts: 1,407 Reputation: 36018	Here's to the Welsh, who preyed upon their knees... and their neighbors. The Scots, who kept the Sabbath... and anything else they could get their hands on. The Irish, who never know what they wanted... but were willing to fight for it anyway. And lastly the English, who considered themselves a self-made race... thereby relieving the Almighty of a responsibility. A favorite toast of mine from one of my many Irish-American family members... B. __________________ Vital Board Info Hey, where am I going? And why am I in this hand basket? Darling, a true lady takes off her dignity with her clothes and does her whorish best. At other times you can be as modest and dignified as your persona requires.

04-05-2007, 08:03 PM	#134
sindyloo Privileged Member Join Date: Nov 2006 Posts: 2,178 Reputation: 34844	The BEST part of you ran down your mothers leg!! full metal jacket. "I am soley concerned about the best for our country and I pledge to you that with your help Germany will rise and be a power amongst the world!!.......Adolf Hitler... __________________ Tommy Loy, the cabin boy, The dirty little nipper, He filled his ass With broken glass And cirumcized the skipper!

04-05-2007, 08:09 PM	#135
dashrendar44 Kamina Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: Deep In The African Jungles Of China Posts: 2,733 Reputation: 12819	"All people are worms, but i do believe that I am a Glow-worm" ~ Churchill "To err, human; To forgive, divine" ~ i dont know XDDD __________________ "Go beyond the impossible and kick reason to the curb!" ~ Kamina, Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann "I've been thinking with my gut since I was 14, and I've come to the conclusion that my guts have shit for brains." ~ Rob Gordon, High Fidelity "All men are potential rapists. ALL MEN. Even the pope!" ~ Shirley Valentine "When you're pushed, killing's as easy as breathing." ~ John Rambo, Rambo IV "I don't think I'm easy to talk about. I've got a very irregular head. And I'm not anything that you think I am anyway." ~ Syd Barrett, Rolling Stone, December 1971

04-06-2007, 01:28 AM	#136
Capt. DooDah Member Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Right behind you. Posts: 57 Reputation: 156	There is no "I" in "TEAM" But I see "U" twice in "FUCK-UP" "In the history books I will be known as the "great communicator". Cuz that's what I do. I communicaters well. Make my point. Ya see? Like just last week, a few days ago. When I was in China last year. The King of China took me on a tour of all the real old China built stuff they got there. And when he showed me that great big stone fence they got to keep people out. I was very erect and desliceve with him. And I looked that king right at the eyes. And real firm like I told him,"Mr.China Man,TEAR DOWN THIS WALL!" G.W. Bush "You can lead a horticulture, But you can't make her think." __________________ *"Pursuant of the involuntary sperm recipient "* Last edited by Capt. DooDah; 04-06-2007 at 01:38 AM.

04-06-2007, 02:54 AM	#137
Hellcat At Rest Join Date: Jan 2007 Posts: 1,808 Reputation: 1841	Please provide the date of your death." -from an IRS letter "CAUTION: Knife is very sharp. Keep out of children" -- a typo (presumably) "CAUTION: Cape does not enable user to fly!" -- Batman Costume warning label "I have opinions of my own, strong opinions. But i don't always agree with them!" GW Bush __________________ â€œIf you should die before me, take my hand and ask if you could bring along a friendâ€

04-06-2007, 03:09 AM	#138
somedude W.I.R. and Marshal Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Way out West!!!! Posts: 8,566 Reputation: 124981	"I will go with you and stand by your side through all dangers." Anherru the Egyptian __________________ I'm a pervert and proud of it!

04-06-2007, 03:19 AM	#139
Hellcat At Rest Join Date: Jan 2007 Posts: 1,808 Reputation: 1841	Nice quote SD Life is a hideous thing, and from the background behind what we know of it peer daemoniacal hints of truth which make it sometimes a thousandfold more hideous. Science, already oppressive with its shocking revelations, will perhaps be the ultimate exterminator of our human species -- if separate species we be -- for its reserve of unguessed horrors could never be borne by mortal brains if loosed upon the world. H.P. Lovecraft __________________ â€œIf you should die before me, take my hand and ask if you could bring along a friendâ€

04-06-2007, 03:34 AM	#140
somedude W.I.R. and Marshal Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Way out West!!!! Posts: 8,566 Reputation: 124981	It's from the tale of the Book of Thoth! Here's another one... "By the life of Pharaoh, tell me what you would have me do for you, and I will do it - if only you will tell me where the Book of Thoth is." Nefrekeptah __________________ I'm a pervert and proud of it!