Quote Collection Thread

[nyrnyr1994]

Trying to build a list of quotes, feel free to share some of your favorites...I'll start it off...

"Propaganda makes up our mind for us, but in such a way that it leaves us the sense of pride and satisfaction of men who have made up their own minds. And in the last analysis, propaganda achieves this effect because we want it to. This is one of the few real pleasures left to modern man: this illusion that he is thinking for himself when, in fact, someone else is doing his thinking for him."
--Thomas Merton

EDIT: Added line

And of course there's my sig line too:

[everythingsxen]

1. Well there is my sig..

but there is always:

Those who forget the past are condemned to repeat it - Santayana

[Dr Satan]

2. quote

"He who loves 50 people has 50 woes; he who loves no one has no woes."
Buddha

[La_Serpiente]

3. The Good Doctor

I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality.... I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word.
--Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Jim Bakker spells his name with 2 k's because 3 would be too obvious.
--Bill Maher


Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.
--Marie Curie

[nyrnyr1994]

4. Ok good! Here's another one...

I am sitting here in the smallest room in my house
with your letter of criticism before me. Soon it will be behind me.

H.L. Mencken

[ronzo]

5. here's a good one.

"When you strip it all away, Jerry Garcia destroyed his life on drugs. And yet he's being honored, like some godlike figure. Our priorities are out of whack, folks."

-limbaugh, 1995

[La_Serpiente]

6. LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLLOL

That one really got me.

[nyrnyr1994]

8. YES!

Now that's one to keep handy.

[ronzo]

7. Another favorite.

"I do not need to explain why I say things. That's the interesting thing about being the President. Maybe somebody needs to explain to me why they say something, but I don't feel like I owe anybody an explanation." 43* - November, 2002.