Cowardice asks the question, 'Is it safe?' Expediency asks the question, 'Is it politic?' Vanity asks the question, 'Is it popular?' But conscience asks the question, 'Is it right?' And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular but he must do it because conscience tells him it is right.

Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute, and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute. That's relativity.

Love? We think about it, sing about it, dream about it, lose sleep worrying about it. When we don't have it, we search for it; when we discover it, we don't know what to do with it; when we have it, we fear losing it. It is the constant source of pleasure and pain. Be we can't predict which it will be from one moment to the next. It is a short word, easy to spell, difficult to define, impossible to live without.

If you do the right thing, people won't think you did anything at all

There ain't no justice, just us.

- Some guy

"For those who believe in God, most of the big questions are answered. But for those of us who can't readily accept the God formula, the big answers don't remain stone-written. We adjust to new conditions and discoveries. We are pliable. Love need not be a command nor faith a dictum. I am my own god. We are here to unlearn the teachings of the church, state, and our educational system. We are here to drink beer. We are here to kill war. We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us."
-Charles Bukowski

There was a fire at the circus and the hippos were boiled in their tanks

>>8000840

How interesting, I'm currently reading his Ham on Rye book, pretty snazzy stuff.

>>8000661
If you don't look up to them, don't let them look down on you.

And if his chest had been a cannon he would have shot his heart upon it.

No matter where you go, there you are.

Do not mistake your objection to defeat for an objection to fighting, your objection to being a slave for an objection to slavery, your objection to not being as rich as your neighbor for an objection to poverty. The cowardly, the insubordinate, and the envious share your objections.
-George Bernard Shaw

It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence.
-Mahatma Gandhi

The most barbarous fact in all christendom is the labor market. The mere term sufficiently expresses the animalism of commercial civilization.
They who buy and they who sell in the labor market are alike dehumanized by the inhuman traffic in the brains and blood and bones of human beings.
-Eugene V. Debs

>>8000895
He is my favorite author. I've read most of his novels. I'm not really into poetry though.

It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees.

Dulce et decorum est, pro patria morii (It is a sweet and seemly thing to die for your country.)

>>8001057
Pro patria morii, stolidissimus est. Sapientes moriuntur pro illis.
To die for your country, is very stupid. The wise die for themselves.

Pretty much everything George Patton said.

A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan executed next week.

A pint of sweat, saves a gallon of blood.

Better to fight for something than live for nothing.

I don't measure a man's success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits bottom

Courage is fear holding on a minute longer.

Some goddamn fool once said that flanks have got to be secure. Since then sonofabitches all over the globe have been guarding their flanks. I don't agree with that. My flanks are something for the enemy to worry about, not me. Before he finds out where my flanks are, I'll be cutting the bastard's throat.

>>8000953

My favorite GBS quote is:

"There are no perfectly honorable men; but every true man has one main point of honor and a few minor ones."

Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved. - Victor Hugo


Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute, and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute. That's relativity. -Albert Einstein

If you don't know where you are going, any road will take you there.

Anyone who trades liberty for security deserves neither liberty nor security.

We have no right to ask when a sorrow comes, 'Why did this happen to me?' unless we ask the same question for every joy that comes our way.

we should be too big to take offense and too noble to give it
-abe lincoln

People who like quotations love meaningless generalizations.
- Graham Greene

When you were born you were crying and everyone around you was smiling. Live your life so when you die, you are the one who is smiling and everyone around you is crying.

Wear your scars on your chest, never on your back.

"Clarity of mind means clarity of passion too; this is why a great and clear mind loves ardently and sees distinctly what it loves." -Blaise Pascal

"Consistency is the last refuge for the unimaginative." -Oscar Wilde

If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude. Don't complain. -Maya Angelou

"All men dream: but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dreams with open eyes, to make it possible. This I did." -T E Lawrence

>>8002445
Yes, but Blaise Pascal also said it's better just to believe in God because if he exists, you go to heaven and if he doesn't, you haven't lost anything.

>>8002475

Well, so? Saying one unbelievably stupid thing doesn't invalidate all the other things you say.

>>8002475
>>8002570

u guys are real intellectuals

>>8000840
fucking awesome

i shall add "its not how you look, but how you see"

>>8002475
so you'll only believe in god because of the reward if he exists?

>>8002475
That was a theoretical construct, Pascal's Wager, not advice on how to live life.

"Do you want to know how smart somebody is? Look and see how much money they have in the bank. That's how smart they are."
--me

When I was 10, I read fairy tales in secret and would have been ashamed if found doing so. Now that I am fifty, I read them openly. When I became a man, I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up.
-C.S. Lewis

>If you meet a loner, no matter what they may tell you, it's not because they enjoy solitude. It's because they have tried to blend into the world before, and people continue to disappoint them.

As a loner myself, I can say this with authority:

Trufax.

# Ruthlessness is the kindness of the wise.
# It is better for a man to be afraid than happy.
# Happiness is a delusion of the weak.
# True happiness stems only from duty.
# To serve Him is to worship Him.
# The loyal slave learns to love the lash.
# Blessed is the mind too small for doubt.
# He who keeps silent consents.
# Truth begets hatred.

>>8007577
HAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAA

FUCKING LOSER

YES, ITS THE PEOPLE.

CONTINUE BEING A LONER UNTIL YOU DIE.

>>8007638
Sounds like Nietzsche to me.

Knowledge is power, guard it well.

An open mind is like a fortress with its gates unbarred and unguarded.

Innocence proves nothing.

Success is commemorated; Failure merely remembered.

Even a man who has nothing can still offer his life.

Hope is the first step on the road to disappointment.

There is no such thing as innocence, only degrees of guilt.

Beginning reform is beginning revolution.

Educate men without faith and you but make them clever devils.

Success is measured in blood; yours or your enemy's.

The man who has nothing can still have faith.

>>8007516

so, by that definition, Lakshmi Mittal is the smartest person who ever lived. Idiot.

FUCKING LOSER

YES, ITS THE PEOPLE.

CONTINUE BEING A LONER UNTIL YOU DIE.

"Laws that forbid the carrying of arms disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes."
-Thomas Jefferson

"When you get sad, stop being sad and be awesome instead."
-Anonymous

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Not sure if samefag...

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"The theory of the Communism may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property."
"From each, according to his ability; to each, according to his needs."
"Communism deprives no man of the ability to appropriate the fruits of his labour. The only thing it deprives him of is the ability to enslave others by means of such appropriations."
"Democracy is the road to socialism."
"Let the ruling classes tremble at a Communist revolution. The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win. Working men of all countries, unite!"

-Karl Marx

"A boat in harbour is safe, but that's not what boats are for"

"Look down on me, and you will see a fool.
Look up at me, and you will see your Lord.
Look straight at me, and you will see yourself."

-Charles Manson

"We serial killers are your sons, we are your husbands, we are everywhere.
And there will be more of your children dead tomorrow."

-Ted Bundy

"Even psychopaths have emotions, then again, maybe not."

-Richard Ramirez

"I am become death, destroyer of worlds"

-Oppenheimer

hi thar

"We are here to help each other get through this thing, whatever it is." - Mark Vonnegut

"We never burned right." - Guy Montag (Ray Bradbury)

"How 'bout I slap your shit?" - That gnome

"quotation is substitute for wit", Oscar Wilde.

that's paraphrased a bit.

The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who, in times of great moral crisis, maintain their neutrality.

It's called the American Dream because you'd have to be asleep to believe it.

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>>8007794
Good quotes. Everything else is just hipster faggotry.