“It is possible to commit no mistakes and still lose. That is not a weakness. That is life.”
- Picard
“Fairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be killed.”
-G.K. Chesterton
Never argue with an idiot. They will drag you down to their level and beat you with experience. - Mark Twain
I didn’t learn until I was in college about all the other cultures, and I should have learned that in the first grade. A first grader should understand that his or her culture isn’t a rational invention; that there are thousands of other cultures and they all work pretty well; that all cultures function on faith rather than truth; that there are lots of alternatives to our own society. Cultural relativity is defensible and attractive. It’s also a source of hope. It means we don’t have to continue this way if we don’t like it.
Kurt Vonnegut
We do not inherit the world from our ansestors, we borrow it from our children. -Antoine de Saint Exupéry
'Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past."
-George Orwell
He who controls the spice, controls the universe.
-Baron Harkonnen
Here are a few nice ones, I can’t really pick:
“Capitalism is the extraordinary belief that the nastiest of men for the nastiest of motives will somehow work together for the benefit of all.” - John Maynard Keynes
(You can also apply this one to proprietary software vs. Free software (don’t say open source in my presence))
“The tyrants are only great because we are on our knees.” - Étienne de La Boétie
“Those who do not move, do not notice their chains.” - Rosa Luxemburg
don’t say [those words] in my presence
Will I regret asking why?
“With or without religion, good people can behave well and bad people can do evil; but for good people to do evil - that takes religion.” ― Steven Weinberg
“I used to be an adventurer like you. Then I took an arrow in the knee…”,
Unknown Soldier - Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim.
“For every complex problem, there is a solution that is simple, direct, easy to understand and wrong.“
- Paraphrased H.L Mencken“To study religion is merely to know the mind of man, but if one truely wanted to know the mind of God, you must study physics.”
- Iain Banks“I believe that children are our future. Unless we stop them now.”
- Homer Simpson“If soulmates exist, they’re not found, they’re made”
The major problem—one of the major problems, for there are several—one of the many major problems with governing people is that of whom you get to do it; or rather of who manages to get people to let them do it to them. To summarize: it is a well-known fact that those people who must want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it. To summarize the summary: anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.
Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe (Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, #2)
Continued - To summarize the summary of the summary: people are a problem.
The perfect comment doesn’t exi…
“There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self.”
- Ernest Hemingway (though I’ll admit, I first heard it in Kingsman)
You’re not fronting having read all Hemingway, you’re sharing a quote with everyone. It’s fine if you heard it in Kingsman, just as it would have been fine if you had heard it in some other work of fiction that quotes Hemingway.
I like this one, it really says don’t measure yourself against others
“My name is Maximus Decimus Meridius, commander of the Armies of the North, General of the Felix Legions, and loyal servant to the true emperor, Marcus Aurelius. Father to a murdered son. Husband to a murdered wife. And I will have my vengeance, in this life or the next.”
As soon as you’re born, you start dying, so you might as well have a good time. - John McCrea
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