The Great Quotes thread

[Bruce G Charlton]

@Raskolnikov - I am actually a 50+ year Tolkien maniac - so I am very familiar with him and his works!

(My Tolkien (and friends) website is "officially" ranked in the top ten Tolkien blogs.)

JRRT isn't for everyone - far from it; but if you happen to share the wavelength he inhabits and are attuned to his world - well, then there is nothing and nobody better.

[grapevine]

"Man, I get up every day and I realise I'm not in control of this whole thing."

- Mel Gibson -
(in answer to the question: "What do you do every day that is beneficial to you?" )

Posted by ExomatrixTV (here)

[Eva2]

Posted by Raskolnikov (here)

Posted by Eva2 (here)
Hell is other people

Sartre

Wow Eva2, I'm surprised to hear that one from you, only because your contributions have been so uplifting and profound, spiritual food for the soul you know. I've really enjoyed them, thank you. It's funny, I used to quote that one from Sartre all the time. Life in the big city. Hope all is well.

"I took the road less traveled, now I don't know where the f*ck I am."

Unknown

Thinking of this in terms of our present circumstances thank you but never thought of my posts as particularly 'profound'

[Kryztian]

"Rejoice! The purpose of life is joy. Rejoice at the sky, the sun, the stars, the grass, the trees, animals, people. If this joy is disturbed it means that you’ve made a mistake somewhere. Find your mistake and correct it. Most often this joy is disturbed by money and ambition."

— Leo Tolstoy

[Bill Ryan]

Talent hits a target no-one else can hit. Genius hits a target no-one else can see.

Arthur Schopenhauer

[norman]

Conversation enriches the understanding, but solitude is the school of genius

Edward Gibbon

[Raskolnikov]

"Of all ignorance, the ignorance of the educated is the most dangerous. Not only are educated people likely to have more influence, they are the last people to suspect that they don't know what they are talking about when they go outside their narrow fields."

Thomas Sowell

[Bill Ryan]

Some people are so poor, all they have is money.

Bob Marley

[norman]

Now that we are discovering and really conquering physics, with that comes the obvious situation that we are still the fallen creatures, and are probably more corrupt and decadent than even our ancestors. Technology has a tendency to empower that and complexity empowers evil because it has more places to hide.

And so only through embracing God and the holy spirit will we not destroy ourselves.

Only a moral people, Thomas Jefferson said, can have this republic.

Well only a moral people guided by God are going to be able to survive and thrive, with how powerful we are.


Alex Jones - Friday 18th April 2025

[mojorissin]

the smile that you send out returns to you ...

N american indian

[Ewan]

'At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst.'

Aristotle.

[Raskolnikov]

"I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around the banks will deprive the people of all property until their children wake-up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered."

"My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much government."

“A strict observance of the written laws is doubtless one of the high duties of a good citizen, but it is not the highest. The laws of necessity, of self preservation, of saving our country when in danger, are of a higher obligation. … To lose our country by a scrupulous adherence to written law would be to lose the law itself, with life, liberty, property and all those who are enjoying them with us; thus absurdly sacrificing the ends to the means.”

"A wise and frugal government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, which shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned. This is the sum of good government, and all that is necessary to close the circle of our felicities."

“To compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.”

“I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.”

Thomas Jefferson

[Eva2]

[Raskolnikov]

Couldn't agree more Eva2. I've always seen through the facade of ownership and people's delusions and addiction to it. I remember seeing bumper stickers in LA in the eighties that read, "He who dies with the most toys wins." That kind of property ownership is empty. But the question of property itself is an interesting one. America's founding fathers proclaimed it as important as life and liberty. And Mark Passio summed it up in his Natural Law Transgressions by stating that "Every harmful action that a human being is capable of taking is a form of THEFT. Some form of PROPERTY is always being stolen when a wrong-doing is committed. LIFE is a form of property. RIGHTS are a form of property. FREEDOM is a form of property." And many in the freedom/freeman movement go so far as saying that your children are your property, in that the government has no right to trespass upon or against such property. So while I agree spiritually/universally with the above and know it to be true deep in my core, unfortunately, we may need to begin viewing property in the natural law setting of which Passio speaks in order to stop the corporate parasites which all governments have become from taking our life, liberty, and property because it's becoming painfully obvious that that is their ultimate goal.

[happyuk]

"I'd rather have questions that can't be answered, than answers that can't be questioned."

Pippa Malmgren (towards the end of this great talk.)

[Raskolnikov]

"Democracy has turned out to be not majority rule, but rule by well-organized and well-connected minority groups who steal from the majority."

Lew Rockwell

[grapevine]

"They are not fit to manage a whelk stall."
- Churchill on the Labour Party in 1945 -

(nothing's changed )

[grapevine]

Just emerging from a period of change by the redecoration of one bedroom and swapping over two other rooms, you wouldn't believe the chaos caused. Given that the family were all working together on these projects, easily explains why the world is in constant flux, let alone the addition of a resistant population.

[Raskolnikov]

"You need only reflect that one of the best ways to get yourself a reputation as a dangerous citizen these days is to go about repeating the very phrases which our founding fathers used in the great struggle for independence."
Attributed to Charles Austin Beard (1874-1948)

"Government is not reason, it is not eloquence, it is force; like fire, a troublesome servant and a fearful master. Never for a moment should it be left to irresponsible action."
George Washington, in a speech of January 7, 1790

[Raskolnikov]

"If it requires a uniform, it's a worthless endeavor."

“I often warn people: ‘Somewhere along the way, someone is going to tell you, ‘There is no ‘I’ in team.’ What you should tell them is, ‘Maybe not. But there is an ‘I’ in independence, individuality, and integrity.”

George Carlin