The Great Quotes thread

[Ewan]

We are far more united by what we care about and understand than by whatever we might temporarily disagree about.

Bill Ryan here.

[Eva2]

Quote by Edward Bernays (1928):
“The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society. Those who manipulate this unseen mechanism of society constitute an invisible government which is the true ruling power of our country. ...We are governed, our minds are molded, our tastes formed, our ideas suggested, largely by men we have never heard of.”

[Raskolnikov]

"It is noteworthy that I usually thought of “the sublime and the beautiful” during my dissipation, often just when I hit the rock-bottom of abjection. These thoughts came in little flashes, as if to remind me of the existence of “the sublime and the beautiful”; but they didn’t interfere with my dissipation. Just the opposite, in fact. They seemed to spice it up by contrast and, like a good sauce, helped bring out the taste. This sauce, concocted of contradictions and suffering, contained painful self-analysis, and the resulting agonies and torments added piquancy and even meaning to my dissipation—in short, it was what a good sauce is meant to be."

Dostoyevsky

[Raskolnikov]

"It never ceases to amaze me: we all love ourselves more than other people but care more about their opinions than our own."

Marcus Aurelius

[Bluegreen]

"Ya chooses ya ticket and ya pays ya price."

– Popeye

[Raskolnikov]

Posted by Bluegreen (here)
"Ya chooses ya ticket and ya pays ya price."

– Popeye

So funny, my friends and I would skateboard to the local laundromat that had the best pinball machine that always said, "Ya pay ya money, ya take ya chances."

[Tintin]

“America, it is said, is suffering from intolerance — it is not. It is suffering from tolerance. Tolerance of right & wrong, truth & error, virtue & evil, Christ & chaos. Our country is not nearly so overrun with the bigoted as it is overrun with the broadminded” - Fulton J. Sheen

[Isserley]

“There are beings in the spiritual realms for whom anxiety and fear emanating from human beings offer welcome food. If fear and anxiety radiate from people and they break out in panic, then these creatures find welcome nutrition and they become more and more powerful. These beings are hostile towards humanity.”

– Rudolf Steiner