Quotes thread

[uranian]

There's a tendency for these sorts of threads to get bogged down as people post dozens of their favourites, but anyway here's one to start things off:


For we are opposed, around the world, by a monolithic and ruthless conspiracy that relies primarily on covert means for expanding its sphere of influence; in infiltration instead of invasion; on subversion instead of elections, on intimidation instead of free choice; on guerillas by night instead of armies by day. It is a system which has conscripted vast human and material resources into the building of a tightly knit, highly efficient machine that combines military, diplomatic, intelligence, economic, scientific, and political operations. Its preparations are concealed not published. Its mistakes are buried, not headlined, its dissenters are silenced, not praised; no expenditure is questioned, no rumor is printed, no secret is revealed. It conducts the cold war, in short, with a wartime discipline no democracy would ever hope to wish to match.

JFK

[chad]

"don't need to wait for an invitation, you gotta live like you're on vacation."

-kiss

[Twisted Titan]

All murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.


Voltaire

[uranian]

Inspired by Wallew's thread (http://gold-silver.us/forum/general-discussion/dhimmitude/):


Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing, there is a field. I will meet you there.


Only from the heart can you touch the sky.


He who experiences the unity of life sees his own Self in all beings, and all beings in his own Self, and looks on everything with an impartial eye.

[Apparition]

* "Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition."

- Thomas Jefferson

* "Errors of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it."

- Thomas Jefferson

* "Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone. The people themselves are its only safe depositories."

- Thomas Jefferson

* "Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves."

- Henry David Thoreau

* "If the machine of government is of such a nature that it requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then, I say, break the law."

- Henry David Thoreau

[kregener]

"Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys." ~ P. J. O'Rourke

[illumin19]

"Why stress about the things you can't change.....and if you can change it, why be stressed?.......live in the flesh is the overlord Labtek."

Labtekwon (Rapper)

[illumin19]

:D

Darn confuscious has the best quotes 8)

[iOWNme]

"Resistance to Tyranny is Obedience to God"

[MNeagle]

Gordon Gekko ~ Quote of the Week


Continuing the weekly compilation of quotes here at Market Folly, we give you a classic from the movie Wall Street. While everyone always quotes Gordon Gekko's notable line, "Greed is good", we wanted to highlight an equally compelling tidbit. Given the fact that the movie's sequel, Wall Street 2, is coming out in a few months, we found this quotation to be quite timely:

"The most valuable commodity I know of is information. Wouldn't you agree?"

~ Gordon Gekko

And for those of you wanting to hear it directly from the man himself, here's an embedded audio clip you can press play to hear:




link (http://www.marketfolly.com/2010/07/gordon-gekko-quote-of-week.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+MarketFolly+%28Market+Folly%2 9#ixzz0unLtg8SD)