Post your favorite quotes!

originally posted by: SkyAngel
So many wonderful and thought-provoking quotes!


"When a man loves cats, I am his friend and comrade, without further introduction"- Mark Twain

That's my favorite one, thank you for posting it!

a reply to: SkyAngel



No man understands a deep book until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents.

-Ezra Pound


The individual is handicapped by coming face-to-face with a conspiracy so monstrous he cannot believe it exists.

-J Edgar Hoover


Here's all you have to know about men and women: women are crazy, men are stupid. And the main reason women are crazy is that men are stupid.

-George Carlin

originally posted by: RonnieJersey

originally posted by: SkyAngel
So many wonderful and thought-provoking quotes!


"When a man loves cats, I am his friend and comrade, without further introduction"- Mark Twain

That's my favorite one, thank you for posting it!

You are welcome.


"Knowing others is wisdom, knowing yourself is Enlightenment." - Lao Tzu

I took some time to upload to Imgur a series of quotes I love. Hope you might enjoy.

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a reply to: livinglight108

This one is so true of today:

"During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act."

- George Orwell

You don't get something for nothing
You can't have freedom for free
You won't get wise with the sleep still in your eyes
No matter what your dream might be

- Neil Peart

Are we there yet? In all seriousness, the real-world current-day manifestation of this ''quote'' is spine chilling.

"The essence of propaganda consists in winning people over to an idea so sincerely, so vitally, that in the end they succumb to it utterly and can never again escape from it," wrote Joseph Goebbels in his diary. Adolph Hitler agreed.

originally posted by: RonnieJersey
a reply to: livinglight108

This one is so true of today:

"During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act."

- George Orwell

So true.

"The further a society drifts from the truth, the more it will hate those who speak it." - George Orwell

Americans have the right to be unarmed and helpless.
Be my guest.

Ted Nugent

"And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music." - Friedrich Nietzsche

a reply to: SkyAngel

Current favourite:

"Hate is useless"
Diana Prince, AKA Wonderwoman

So smart

originally posted by: underpass61
Americans have the right to be unarmed and helpless.
Be my guest.

Ted Nugent

2A suggests we have the duty to be members of militias. It's not usually considered however what if people do not have the right to fail to understand the bill of rights? What if it is people's moral obligation to understand why self-defense using fire-arms is critical as a last line of preservation/defense of freedom?

"Love does not dominate; it cultivates." - Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Oh God, I couldn't agree more!





"Politics is pointless if it does nothing to enhance the beauty of our lives." - Howard Zinn

For thirty years I sought God. But when I looked carefully I found that in reality God was the seeker and I the sought. -Bayazid al-Bastami

"If thou canst not make thine own self what thou desireth, how shalt thou be able to fashion another to thine own liking. We are ready to see others made perfect, and yet we do not amend our own shortcomings."
—Thomas à Kempis

originally posted by: livinglight108
2A suggests we have the duty to be members of militias. It's not usually considered however what if people do not have the right to fail to understand the bill of rights? What if it is people's moral obligation to understand why self-defense using fire-arms is critical as a last line of preservation/defense of freedom?

I don't want to spoil this great thread full of the most quotable quotes ATS can muster, but I need to point out that the general acceptance that the maladies that could befall our national (notional?) sovereignty as new "Americans" was avoidable by accepting that an armed population could never be completely oppressed, isn't the same as 'engendering a duty.'

The framers were careful to avoid the creation of such burdens on citizens. I agree that can be inferred but disagree that it constitutes an implicit duty.