Quotable quotes

[rareboy]

 

[opinterph]

“Always do what is right. It will gratify half of mankind and astound the other.”

– Mark Twain

 

[opinterph]

“A great deal of world politics is a fundamental struggle, but it is also a struggle that has to be waged intelligently.”

― Zbigniew Brzezinski

 

[rareboy]

 

[Alistair]

 

[pornoboy]

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[pornoboy]

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[opinterph]

“We shall not cease from exploration
And the end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time.”

― T. S. Eliot, Four Quartets

 

[pornoboy]

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[opinterph]

“Manners are a sensitive awareness of the feelings of others. If you have that awareness, you have good manners, no matter what fork you use.”

― Emily Post

 

[Alistair]

 

[Rand]

Charlie Chaplin, excerpt from final speech in The Great Dictator:

We think too much and feel too little. More than machinery we need humanity. More than cleverness we need kindness and gentleness. Without these qualities, life will be violent and all will be lost…

 

[opinterph]

“I will not deny but that the best apology against false accusers is silence and sufferance, and honest deeds set against dishonest words.”

― John Milton

 

[Alistair]

 

[Araucaria]

“There is nothing wrong with power if power is used correctly...the problem is that concepts of power and love are usually seen as opposites.... What is needed is a realization that power without love is reckless and abusive, and love without power is sentimental and anemic. Power at its best is love implementing the demands of justice, and justice at its best is power correcting everything that stands against love.” -Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

 

[opinterph]

“A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.”

― Dwight D. Eisenhower

 

[purina]

"Everyone has a plan, until they get punched in the mouth.”

― Mike Tyson

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[opinterph]

“The condition upon which God hath given liberty to man is eternal vigilance; which condition if he break, servitude is at once the consequence of his crime and the punishment of his guilt.”

— John Philpot Curran

 

[Norri]

Nothing is so stupid as to conquer, true glory lies in convincing.

Victor Hugo

 

[Alistair]