Quotes Thread

[David M Mallon]

"It should be kind of a giveaway that you've made a not ideal military procurement decision when your sniper scope has a picture of a groundhog on it."
- Ian McCollum

[Alexis "The Odd" Trismegistis]

"Cancer isn't just a vile wasting disease - it's a dick about being a vile wasting disease."

― Yours Truly

[Naghamadi]

"The corruption of the priesthood occurred at the precise moment in which it changed from a minority organised to impart knowledge into a minority organised to withhold it.

The great danger of decadence in journalism is almost exactly the same. Journalism possesses in itself the potentiality of becoming one of the most frightful monstrosities and delusions that have ever cursed mankind.

This horrible transformation will occur at the exact instant at which journalists realise that they can become an aristocrat...."

― G.K. Chesterton

[David M Mallon]

"Always be ready to speak your mind, and a base man will avoid you."
- William Blake

[quibblemuch]

David M Mallon wrote:

"Always be ready to speak your mind, and a base man will avoid you."

- William Blake

"Moses came in through the window and entered my body through my left knee."

-Also William Blake

Just saying, sometimes speaking your mind might lead more than base men to avoid you...

[Ao Shoku]

"When out of fear you twist the lesser Evil into the lie that it is something Good, you eventually rob people of the capacity to distinguish between Good and Evil."

― Hannah Arendt

[Vladek Odradek]

"What is really amazing, and frustrating, is mankind's habit of refusing to see the obvious and inevitable until it is there, and then muttering about unforeseen catastrophes."

― Isaac Asimov

[David M Mallon]

"How did you go bankrupt?" "Two ways," Mike said. "Gradually, then suddenly."
- Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises (1926)

[Khāṇa Tsogtsos]

"It's the Internet: Where the men are men, the women are men, and the children are FBI agents."

― "Dr. Tiger Firehammer", City of Heroes player