The Great Quotes thread

[Kryztian]

Pueblo idiota es seguridad del tirano.

(An idiotic people means security for the tyrant. )

--- Spanish Proverb

[Raskolnikov]

"The man who never looks into a newspaper is better informed than he who reads them; inasmuch as he who knows nothing is nearer to truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehood and errors."

Thomas Jefferson

[Raskolnikov]

[grapevine]

"The story of the human race is War. Except for
brief and precarious interludes, there has never
been peace in the world’ and before history began,
murderous strife was universal and unending”
– Winston Churchill

(and epigraph in Annie Jacobsen's book, Nuclear War, a Scenario)

[Raskolnikov]

[kfm27917]

Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

[Raskolnikov]

Know nothing about this man but agree wholeheartedly with the statement.

[ErtheVessel]

"Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people. To destroy this invisible government, to befoul the unholy alliance between corrupt business and corrupt politics is the first task of the statesmanship of today."

-Theodore Roosevelt
U.S. President from September 1901 to March 1909

[Bill Ryan]

Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad.

First observed (correctly! ) by Sophocles (497—405 BC), and later restated in its exact well-known form by William Anderson Scott in 1854.

[norman]

"No one will enter the New World Order unless he or she will make a pledge to worship Lucifer. No one will enter the New Age unless he will take a Luciferian initiation."

David Spangler, United Nations Director of Planetary Initiative.

[Bill Ryan]

The more numerous the laws, the more corrupt the government.

Tacitus (56—120 AD)

[Bill Ryan]

In the fell clutch of circumstance
I have not winced nor cried aloud.
Under the bludgeonings of chance
My head is bloody, but unbowed.

William Ernest Henley, from his poem Invictus (1875). 'Invictus' is Latin for unconquerable, or undefeated.

[Raskolnikov]

Posted by Bill Ryan (here)
The more numerous the laws, the more corrupt the government.

Tacitus (56—120 AD)

Speaks volumes today. Reminds me of the old adage, "Laws were made to be broken," so they can turn everyone into a criminal and fill their private prisons. Control, control, control. Today's lawmakers and the army of lawyers, (dis)loyal to the BAR, they employ:

[kfm27917]

Winston Churchill once famously said that “nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result.”

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/...-press-pundits

[Bill Ryan]

In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

[Raskolnikov]

Posted by Bill Ryan (here)
In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Case in point...

[Kryztian]

[grapevine]

[Vicus]

The true measure of a man is not his intelligence or how high he rises in this freak establishment. No, the true measure of a man is this: how quickly can he respond to the needs of others and how much of himself he can give.

- Philip K. Dick

[Raskolnikov]