Meaningful ideas and quotes

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

'War concentrates power in the hands of those most likely to misuse it.' - Joseph Heller, Catch-22

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[The Valkyrie]

"If cats looked like frogs we'd realise what cruel, sadistic little bastards they are. Style. That's what people remember."
- Terry Pratchett (paraphrased).

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

'Freedom of the press is not just important to democracy.  It IS democracy.' - Walter Cronkite

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[BrianSoddingBoru4]

'Whatever you're doing today, do it with all the confidence of a four year old in a Batman t-shirt.' - Variously ascribed

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[tackattack]

"The way most people deceive themselves, most particularly, is they leave what they know they're ignorant about un-examined." - Dr. Jordan Peterson

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

'People who talk in metaphors ought to shampoo my crotch.' - Melvin Udall

Boru

[qb1base]

"The only interesting thing about religion is how many people it's slaughtered." 
Lemmy

[Gwaithmir]

“Man is the religious animal. He is the only religious animal. He is the only animal that has the true religion--several of them. He is the only animal that loves his neighbor as himself and cuts his throat if his theology isn't straight. He has made a graveyard of the globe in trying his honest best to smooth his brother's path to happiness and heaven.” (Mark Twain) 

[vulcanlogician]

"A man is the whole encyclopaedia of facts. The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn, and Egypt, Greece, Rome, Gaul, Britain, America, lie folded already in the first man. Epoch after epoch, camp, kingdom, empire, republic, democracy, are merely the application of his manifold spirit to the manifold world."

-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

https://archive.vcu.edu/english/engweb/t...story.html

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

'Extinguished theologians lie about the cradle of every science as the strangled snakes beside the cradle of Hercules.' - T.H. Huxley

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