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The 20 Best Quotes of the Last Decade
Culturcidal ^ | 13 Apr 2025 | John Hawkins

Posted on 04/16/2025 6:17:50 AM PDT by Rummyfan

For a couple of decades now, I have put out a list of the best and most obnoxious quotes of the year. The most obnoxious quotes always get much more attention for understandable reasons, but that’s just how it is these days, isn’t it? The most outrageous, blood pressure-raising, anger-producing events get all the eyeballs, and the real news, brilliant insights, and uplifting sentiments tend to get ignored.

Well today, we’re going to be giving those “best of” quotes the respect they deserve. What you are about to read is a little snapshot of history, the best quotes from 2014 – to the present. Enjoy!

20) “In the past, if a 21-year-old said they had ‘trauma’, or were on the receiving end of ‘violence,’ it usually meant they’d seen their mates get blown up in the trenches, or had been shot. Now it just means they saw a Tweet.” — Charlotte Gill

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19) “Unfortunately, as I tell my white friends, we as black people, we’re never going to be successful, not because of you white people, but because of other black people. When you’re black, you have to deal with so much crap in your life from other black people. It’s a dirty, dark secret; I’m glad it’s coming out.

…One of the reasons we’re never going to be successful as a whole, is because of other black people. And for some reason, we are brainwashed to think, if you’re not a thug or an idiot, you’re not black enough. If you go to school, make good grades, speak intelligently, and don’t break the law, you’re not a good black person. And it’s a dirty, dark secret.

…There are a lot of black people who are unintelligent, who don’t have success. It’s best to knock a successful black person down because they’re intelligent, they speak well, they do well in school, and they’re successful… We’re the only ethnic group who say, ‘Hey, if you go to jail, it gives you street cred.’ It’s just typical BS that goes on when you’re black, man.” — Charles Barkley

1 posted on 04/16/2025 6:17:50 AM PDT by Rummyfan
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To: Rummyfan

“We made too many wrong mistakes.”
“You can observe a lot by watching.”
“The future ain’t what it used to be.”
“Nobody goes there anymore. It’s too crowded.”
“I usually take a two hour nap from one to four.”
“When you come to a fork in the road, take it.”
“It gets late early out there.”
“If the world were perfect, it wouldn’t be.”
“Why buy good luggage? You only use it when you travel.”
“If the people don’t want to come out to the ballpark,
nobody’s going to stop them.”
“Pair up in threes.”

Guess who?


2 posted on 04/16/2025 6:43:52 AM PDT by Bob434 (Time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a banana)
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To: Rummyfan

20) “In the past, if a 21-year-old said they had ‘trauma’, or were on the receiving end of ‘violence,’ it usually meant they’d seen their mates get blown up in the trenches, or had been shot. Now it just means they saw a Tweet.” — Charlotte Gill


3 posted on 04/16/2025 6:48:41 AM PDT by Bob434 (Time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a banana)
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To: Rummyfan

Barkley’s quote was basically wrapped in the classic Chris Rock “Black People Vs. N_____s” routine.


4 posted on 04/16/2025 6:50:57 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Rummyfan
18) “Conservatives say ‘you can be somebody.’ Liberals say ‘you should hate somebody.’” — Carl Jackson

Best 'short and sweet'

9) “To me, it’s a sign of intellectual weakness. If you can’t ask Ann Coulter in a polite way questions which expose the weakness of her arguments, if all you can do is boo, or shut her down, or prevent her from coming, what does that tell the world? What are you afraid of? Her ideas? Ask her the hard questions. Confront her intellectually. Booing people down, or intimidating people, or shutting down events, I don’t think that that works in any way.” — Bernie Sanders

Most surprising...

3) “Modern journalism is all about deciding which facts the public shouldn’t know because they might reflect badly on Democrats.” — Jim Treacher

Saddest and truest...

2) “What I see all over the place is people who care about looking good, while doing evil. F*** them." — Elon Musk

Sad, real and insightful

5 posted on 04/16/2025 7:09:19 AM PDT by GOPJ (Elites want the gravy train running ripping us off for NATO, Tariffs and bad trade deals. NO MORE.)
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To: Bob434

Yogi!


6 posted on 04/16/2025 7:53:54 AM PDT by 70times7 (Serving Free Republic's warped and obscure humor needs since 1999)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; BraveMan; cardinal4; ...
1) "Fight! Fight! Fight!" — Donald Trump

7 posted on 04/16/2025 8:06:26 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Putin should skip ahead to where he kills himself in the bunker.)
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To: Bob434

Those are all from Yogi.


8 posted on 04/16/2025 8:09:19 AM PDT by Rummyfan ( In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man.)
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To: SunkenCiv
1) "Fight! Fight! Fight!" — Donald Trump

Yeah, that's pretty awesome!

9 posted on 04/16/2025 8:43:19 AM PDT by Psalm 73 ("You'll never hear surf music again" - J. Hendrix)
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To: Bob434

It aint over ‘till its over.
You can observe a lot just by watching.
If people don’t want to come to the ballpark, how are you going to stop them?
The future ain’t what it used to be.
Its deja vu all over again.


10 posted on 04/16/2025 8:43:48 AM PDT by Delta 21 (If anyone is treasonous, it is those who call me such.)
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To: Rummyfan

“Don’t touch my junk!”


11 posted on 04/16/2025 9:35:32 AM PDT by Track9 (Make haste slowly. )
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To: Rummyfan

Yup :)


12 posted on 04/16/2025 10:16:03 AM PDT by Bob434 (Time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a banana)
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To: 70times7

Yup :) We lost a legend when he passed!


13 posted on 04/16/2025 10:16:24 AM PDT by Bob434 (Time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a banana)
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To: Track9

That one may be from shortly after 9/11, so more than a decade.

But “Don’t taze me bro!” I think is still just under 10 years old!


14 posted on 04/16/2025 10:20:04 AM PDT by Magnum44 (...against all enemies, foreign and domestic... )
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To: Delta 21

If you don’t go to other people’s funerals, they won’t go to yours.


15 posted on 04/16/2025 3:35:57 PM PDT by Enterprise ( These people have no honor, no belief, no poetry, no art, no humor, no patriotism.)
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To: Enterprise

My dad explained who Yogi was and what it was he was saying. I was immediately enthralled by this super short ugly New Yorker who murmured these jewels of wisdom.

Some of the guys playing on the field actually had to have some skill playing baseball. Thats not all we kept Yogi around for.


16 posted on 04/16/2025 4:35:23 PM PDT by Delta 21 (If anyone is treasonous, it is those who call me such.)
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To: Rummyfan

I do not know who she quoting, but my junior high granddaughter came up with:

“Whiteboards are the most remarkable invention in the last 50 years.”


17 posted on 04/16/2025 4:58:01 PM PDT by the_Watchman
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To: Delta 21

Yogi was a keeper!


18 posted on 04/16/2025 9:08:52 PM PDT by Enterprise ( These people have no honor, no belief, no poetry, no art, no humor, no patriotism.)
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