Favourite Quotes

[Rath Darkblade]

'It is very hard work to do nothing. However, I don't mind hard work where there is no definite object of any kind."

-- Algernon Moncrieff (The Importance of Being Earnest, Oscar Wilde)

 

[JLT]

"I went out to the woods today
To hide away from you.
From you a thousand miles away --
But you came, too."

-- Jessie Rittenhouse

 

[Rath Darkblade]

"It was much better to imagine men in some smoky room somewhere, made mad and cynical by privilege and power, plotting over brandy. You had to cling to this sort of image, because if you didn't then you might have to face the fact that bad things happened because ordinary people, the kind who brushed the dog and told the children bed time stories, were capable of then going out and doing horrible things to other ordinary people. It was so much easier to blame it on Them. It was bleakly depressing to think that They were Us. If it was Them, then nothing was anyone's fault. If it was Us, then what did that make Me? After all, I'm one of Us. I must be. I've certainly never thought of myself as one of Them. No one ever thinks of themselves as one of Them. We're always one of Us. It's Them that do the bad things."

(Jingo, Terry Pratchett)

 

[Louanne Learning]

 

[JLT]

"Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is like expecting the bull not to charge you because you are a vegetarian.
-- Dennis Wholey

 

[Selluwud]

"No good deed goes unpunished"

Multiple Attributions

 

[Louanne Learning]

“I'm not upset that you lied to me, I'm upset that from now on I can't believe you.”

― Friedrich Nietzsche

 

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[Iain Aschendale]

“If the people believe there’s an imaginary river out there, you don’t tell them there’s no river there. You build an imaginary bridge over the imaginary river”​

― Nikita Khrushchev, reportedly giving advice to then-Vice President Richard Nixon

 

[Rath Darkblade]

Funny, I always through that what Khruschev actually said was "A politician is one that promises anything, even building a bridge where there is no river."
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Göring: Why, of course, the people don't want war. Why would some poor slob on a farm want to risk his life in a war when the best that he can get out of it is to come back to his farm in one piece? Naturally, the common people don't want war; neither in Russia nor in England nor in America, nor for that matter in Germany. That is understood. But, after all, it is the leaders of the country who determine the policy and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy or a fascist dictatorship or a Parliament or a Communist dictatorship.

Gilbert: There is one difference. In a democracy, the people have some say in the matter through their elected representatives, and in the United States only Congress can declare wars.

Göring: Oh, that is all well and good, but, voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same way in any country.

(In an interview with Gilbert in Göring's jail cell during the Nuremberg War Crimes Trials (18 April 1946). Dr. G.M. Gilbert, 1976 "The Memory of Justice")

 

[Louanne Learning]

 

[Rath Darkblade]

“Time is a drug. Too much of it kills you.”
― Terry Pratchett, Small Gods

 

[GrahamLewis]

"You wake up in the middle of the night with an anxiety attack and when you can fully experience the taste and smell of it, you are sharing the anxiety and fear of all humanity and all animals as well. Instead of your distress becoming all about you, it can become your link with everyone all over the world who is in the same predicament. The stories are different, the causes are different, but the experience is the same." Pema Chodron

 

[Louanne Learning]

Sometimes, it is simple. Sometimes, you just have to listen to Pooh.

 

[Louanne Learning]

 

[Rath Darkblade]

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We relinquished our freedom that day, and we were more than happy to see it go. From that moment on we lived in true freedom, the freedom to point to someone else and say "They told me to do it! It’s their fault, not mine." The freedom, God help us, to say “I was only following orders."
—Maria Zhuganova, "World War Z" by Max Brooks

 

[wearywanderer64]

"When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down 'happy.'
They told me I didn't understand the assignment and I told them they didn't understand life."

(John Lennon)

 

[JLT]

We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful what we pretend to be.

--Kurt Vonnegut, Mother Night

 

[Louanne Learning]

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[Rath Darkblade]

“The gods of the Disc have never bothered much about judging the souls of the dead, and so people only go to hell if that's where they believe, in their deepest heart, that they deserve to go. Which they won't do if they don't know about it. This explains why it is so important to shoot missionaries on sight.”
― Terry Pratchett, Eric