I take the followings as cautionary:
Brent Weeks said:
Life is meaningless, life is empty. When we take a life, we take nothing of value.
Crazy Eddie CFO Sam Antar said:
"We have no respect for the laws. We consider your codes of ethics, and your laws, weaknesses to be exploited in the execution of our crimes.
Assasin's Creed said:
La shaiq' waqee mutlak bl kollin moumkin. "Nothing is true, everything is permitted"
PF Quotes:
"I just unresolved the issue. And now I've resolved it again, just now. BAM!" (Greg Bernhardt)
"This is P&WA. We don't try the other guy's way. We tell the other guy that his way makes no sense and follow that with a personal attack." (Caffenta, said in jest)
General Quotes:
Speech of 1951 said:
"It is part of the general pattern of misguided policy that our country is now geared to an arms economy which was bred in an artificially induced psychosis of war hysteria and nurtured upon an incessant propaganda of fear. While such an economy may produce a sense of seeming prosperity for the moment, it rests on an illusionary foundation of complete unreliability and renders among our political leaders almost a greater fear of peace than is their fear of war."
"Terrible he rode alone, With his yemen sword for aid; Ornament it carried none But the notches on the blade." (The Death Feud, trans from Arabic in 1800's)
FDR said:
"This great Nation will endure as it has endured, will revive and will prosper. So, first of all, let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself—nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance."
"All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than animals that know nothing." (Maurice Maeterlinck)
Yevgeny Aleksandrovich Yevtushenko said:
"In any man who dies there dies with him
his first snow and kiss and fight...
Not people die but worlds die in them."
Eastern Promises said:
Пусть будет сном что пережито мною [Pust' budet snom chto perezhito mnoyu] “Let all I have lived be as if it were a dream”
Не верь, не бойся, не проси» "Ne ver', ne bojsya, ne prosi" "don't trust, don't be afraid, don't beg"
"Your grandfather? Stay away from him you dimwitted monkey. You mustn't interfere with the past. Don't do anything that affects anything, unless it turns out you were supposed to do it. In which case. for the love of God, don't not do it!" (Prof Hubert Farnsworth from Futurama)
Naboo The Shaman aka The Croydon Mystic aka Michel Fielding said:
The thing about Hash Cakes is this: Start off with one, wait about an hour see how you feel. Don't eat fifteen in one go, cause you will see the devil, and he'll try to rip your heart out through your kneecaps
Friedrich Nietzsche said:
Battle not with monsters lest ye become a monster, and if you gaze into the abyss the abyss gazes also into you.
"We have finished the job. What shall we do with the tools?" (Haile Selassie) — Telegram to Winston Churchill, 1941
Blade Runner said:
You’re in the desert, you see a tortoise lying on its back, struggling, and you’re not helping — why is that?
"Life is full of decisons. Sometimes you make the right ones, and sometimes you have to kill all the witnesses." (anon)
William Shakespeare - King Lear said:
How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is
To have a thankless child!
Isaac Asimov said:
Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
"The last thing I ever wanted was to be alive when the three most powerful people on the whole planet would be named Bush, Dick and Colon." (Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.)
Voltaire said:
Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.
Henry Kissinger 'gems'" said:
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Any fact that needs to be disclosed should be put out now or as quickly as possible, because otherwise the bleeding will not end." (Henry Kissinger)
"The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer." (Henry Kissinger)
"While we should never give up our principles, we must also realize that we cannot maintain our principles unless we survive." (Henry Kissinger)
"High office teaches decision making, not substance. It consumes intellectual capital; it does not create it. Most high officials leave office with the perceptions and insights with which they entered; they learn how to make decisions but not what decisions to make." (Henry Kissinger)
"Corrupt politicians make the other ten percent look bad." (Henry Kissinger)
"Never before in the history of warfare had there been a continuing explosive; indeed, up to the middle of the twentieth century the only explosives known were combustibles whose explosiveness was due entirely to their instantaneousness; and these atomic bombs which science burst upon the world that night were strange even to the men who used them." (H.G. Wells; The World Set Free, published 1914)
Wheelock's Latin via Wikipedia said:
“Exercitus noster est magnus,” Persicus inquit, “et propter
numerum sagittarum nostrarum caelum non videbitis!”
Tum Lacedaemonius respondet: “In umbra, igitur, pugnabimus!”
Et Leonidas, rex Lacedaemoniorum, exclamat: “Pugnate cum animis,
Lacedaemonii; hodie apud umbras fortasse cenabimus!”
"Our army is great,” the Persian says, “and because
of the number of our arrows you will not see the sky!”
Then a Spartan answers: “In the shade, therefore, we will fight!”
And Leonidas, king of the Spartans, shouts: “Fight with spirit,
Spartans; perhaps we will dine today among the ghosts!”
"In war there can be no substitute for victory, war's very object is victory, not prolonged indecision." (Gen MacArthur re: Korea)
Voltaire said:
Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd.
"He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death." (H.H. Munroe)
"Some men are alive simply because it is against the law to kill them." (Edward W. Howe)
"...And crawling, on the planet's face, some insects, called the Human Race. Lost in time, and lost in space, and meaning." (RHPS)
Setec Astronomy (Sneakers)
Hellsing said:
To reign over the kingdom of the world. To make its peace and write its laws. To be generous to the obedient and merciless to all those who would stand against you. Nothing ever changes. 2000 years and you still act as if the world is yours.
"You appear foolish in the eyes of others. I mock your value system. Past instances where I may have professed to like you were fraudulent. I have had sexual intercourse with your spouse or signifigant other." (Homer Simpson)
Daniel Keyes 'Flowers For Algernon' said:
P.S. please if you get a chanse put some flowrs on Algernons grave in the bak yard.
2001 said:
H
AL-9000: Dr. Chandra, will I dream?
Dr. Chandra: I don't know.
James Joyce 'Ulysses' said:
... And I thought well as well him as another and then I asked him with my eyes to ask again yes and then he asked me would I yes to say yes my mountain flower and first I put my arms around him yes and drew him down to me so he could feel my breasts all perfume yes and his heart was going like mad and yes I said yes I will Yes.
"Sick on my journey, only my dreams will wander, these desolate moors." (Basho's Death Poem)
The Cynic's Dictionary said:
Conservative: "A statesmen who is enamoured of existing evils, as distinguished from a liberal, who wishes to replace them with others." (Ambrose Bierce)
Politicians: "People who, when they see the light at the end of the tunnel, order more tunnel." (John Quintan)
Appeasers: "People who believe if you keep throwing steaks at a tiger, he'll become a vegeterian." (Heywood Brown)
Committee: "A cul-de-sac down which ideas are lured and then quietly strangled." (John A. Lincoln)
Fools: "Ninety Nine percent of people in the world - and the rest of us are in great danger of contagion." (William Whyte)
Cheese: "Milk's leap towards immortality." (Clifton Fadiman)
Auctioneer: "Someone who proclaims with a hammer that he's picked your pocket with his tongue." (anon.)
Certainty: "Being mistaken at the top of one's voice." (Ambrose Bierce)
Reporter: "A man who has renounced everything in life but the world, the flesh, and the devil." (David Murray)
Charity: "The steralised milk of human kindness." (Oliver Herford)
Propaganda: "A monologue which seeks not a response, but an echo." (W.H. Auden)
Cricket: "A game invented by religious fundamentalists to explain the idea of eternal hell to non-Chrisitan indigenous people of the former British Empire." (Joe O'Connor)
And the greatest... I transcribed this from an episode of Iron Chef, the comment is made by a very delicate looking young actress/judge:
"mmm and it makes a great conversation piece too!.. you know, 'hey look... DUCK FEET! yum!" (quote from Iron Chef)
This statement f-ing rokx.
