RE: Daily quotes
December 16, 2012 at 1:33 pm
(This post was last modified: December 16, 2012 at 1:39 pm by Angrboda.)
"Merde!"
— Reputed response of Pierre Cambronne upon being called to surrender after the battle of Waterloo, often quoted as having said, "La garde meurt et ne se rend pas !" ("The Guard dies and does not surrender!")
Cambonne denided the later accounts as well. Cambonne himself was captured and taken prisoner by the British, which, according to British Colonel Hugh Halkett's account, occurred before the reputed incident.
"A man a cubit below the water is drowning as much as a man five hundred fathoms down."
— Chrysippus, referring to the impossibility of being truly virtuous and wise
"In Christianity neither morality nor religion come into contact with reality at any point."
— Friedrich Nietzsche
"Fuck you, I won't do what you tell me."
— Rage Against The Machine, Killing In The Name