Posted on 09/21/2015 7:25:36 PM PDT by Auntie Mame
What are some of your favorite quotes? Here are a few of mine:
To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize. – Voltaire
The usefulness of a cup is its emptiness. - Bruce Lee
Any fool can commit a murder; a suicide requires a real professional. – Genrikh Yagoda Chief of the NKVD during the early 1930s
Socialists can provide you shelter, fill your belly with bacon and beans, treat you when you're ill, all the things guaranteed to a prisoner or a slave.
Here’s another good one:
No-one would remember the Good Samaritan if he’d only had good intentions; he had money as well. —Margaret Thatcher
CS Lewis - “Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.”
This defines SJW today, though they enjoy it as much because it is a socially approved form of bullying as for the moral status it seems to grant today.
Questions are never indiscreet. Answers sometimes are. - Oscar Wilde.
The reply to “A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds.:
Inconsistency has been overpraised by those who do not expect to suffer from it. - Mason Cooley
“per Ardua Ad Alta”: I think that is correct. It is my high school class of 65 motto.
“Duty Is The Most Sublime Word In The English Language”: Robert E. Lee.
Evil Triumphs When Good Men Do Nothing .... Edmund Burke
Theodore Dalrymple on political correctness:
“Political correctness is communist propaganda writ small. In my study of communist societies, I came to the conclusion that the purpose of communist propaganda was not to persuade or convince, nor to inform, but to humiliate; and therefore, the less it corresponded to reality the better. When people are forced to remain silent when they are being told the most obvious lies, or even worse when they are forced to repeat the lies themselves, they lose once and for all their sense of probity. To assent to obvious lies is to co-operate with evil, and in some small way to become evil oneself. One’s standing to resist anything is thus eroded, and even destroyed. A society of emasculated liars is easy to control. I think if you examine political correctness, it has the same effect and is intended to.”
Great one!
“Pride grows on a human heart like lard on a pig.”
A.I.Solzhenitsyn
“...though it cannot hope to be useful or informative on all matters, it does make the reassuring claim that where it is inaccurate, it is at least definitively inaccurate.” - Douglas Adams
(This has been very helpful in public speaking and other presentations regarding the common “but what if I make a mistake?” fear: if I’m wrong in front of an audience, I shall strive to be _definitively_ wrong. Quite the confidence builder!)
“Strange how much human progress and accomplishment comes from contemplation of the irrelevant.” - Scott Kim
(Great rebuttal for the rhetorical question “well what’s _that_ good for?”.)
“If you have to tell me who or what or how good you are, you probably ain’t.”
Me
Admission: I don’t understand the “hobgoblin” quote. Just never made sense to me.
Somebody’s doing the raping. Donald Trump
“There Is No Substitute For Victory”: Douglas MacArthur.
Raymond Chandler
down these mean streets a man must go who is not himself mean, who is neither tarnished nor afraid. He is the hero; he is everything. He must be a complete man and a common man and yet an unusual man. He must be, to use a rather weathered phrase, a man of honor—by instinct, by inevitability, without thought of it, and certainly without saying it. He must be the best man in his world and a good enough man for any world.
Solzhenitsyn certainly had a way with words. I’ve never heard this, but so true.
“Statistics mean nothing when they happen to YOU.” - Me
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