we have one in here about war, but i'm talking in general. include war quotes if you'd like, though.

The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival.

Aristotle.

"Fall behind early, it gives you longer to catch up."

With that unassailable piece of logic in place I have finished way more schooling than I ever thought possible.

"It's not the work you do, it's the work you get credit for."

This has lead to me making more money than I ever thought I would.

"Warren G. Harding was a negro."
John McLaughlin

"Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd."
Voltaire

"Use, do not abuse; neither abstinence nor excess ever renders man happy. "
Voltaire

"But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads?"
Albert Camus

"The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion."
Albert Camus

"Give me liberty or give me death."
Patrick Henry

"Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that. "
Martin Luther King, Jr.

"Never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal."
Martin Luther King, Jr.

"Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men."
Lord Acton

that's just my facebook ones that one day i was inspired to copy and paste there. and now here. well except the first one, i typed it myself after seeing it(albeit second hand at 1130 on CC).

"I love that quote, it easily identifies the idiots. Dissent is NOT the highest form of patriotism, informed dissent is. Dissent for the sake of dissent is simply idiotic, going further to refer to it as the "highest form of patriotism" proves you for the idiot you are."

"Wherever we are going, and wherever we want to go, we have to get there from where we are right now. Not where we wish we were or where we want others to think we are but where we are in fact."

"There is nothing so good that politicians can't make it bad and nothing so bad that politicians can't make it worse."

"The plural of anecdotes is not data."

"There's no way to rule innocent men. The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible to live without breaking laws."

War would end if the dead could return.
Stanley Baldwin

"Despite the vision and farseeing wisdom of our wartime heads of state, the physicists have felt the peculiarly intimate responsibility for suggesting, for supporting, and in the end, in large measure, for achieving the realization of atomic weapons. Nor can we forget that these weapons as they were in fact used dramatized so mercilessly the inhumanity and evil of modern war. In some sort of crude sense which no vulgarity, no humor, no overstatement can quite extinguish, the physicists have known sin; and this is a knowledge which they cannot lose."-Robert Oppenheimer

i want one of your quotes up here SLH!

"Our one bathroom we got for 600 dudes to share, the floor's so wet with piss that dudes stand in the doorway and do their best to hit the sink or the toilet."

Chuck Palahniuks'
Snuff

Reason does not work instinctively, but requires trial, practice, and instruction in order to gradually progress from one level of insight to another.

Immanuel Kant.

"Eye for an eye will make us all blind"

- Gandhi


"You either do or you do not. There is no try."

- Yoda

i actually don't know if i like this one. is yoda implying that good intentions aren't important if you fail?

to have loved and lost is better than to have never loved at all

i dont think he is. how could i make myself understood... i think what it means is that u either have to decide to not do something or to do something. and not decide to TRY and do something. u know?

if you fail u fail and thats that. but at least uve decided to go for it.

EDIT: kinda like if u figure ur gonna try and do somethin it almost means u feel like u cant do it..

I actually LOVE this quote. I say it to myself all the time. Whenever I'm about to do something out of my comfort zone, or when I catch myself doing something halfway. Usually when I'm playing sports. But it inspires me.

And see my sig which I just changed today for one of my current favorite quotes. I think it perfectly describes my feelings about party politics.

That's a great one.

The parallel quote is:

"Walk left side road, OK. Walk right side road, OK. Walk middle, squish, just like grape."

George: God would never let me be successful; he'd kill me first. He'd never let me be happy.
Therapist: I thought you didn't believe in God?
George: I do for the bad things.

"Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs even though checkered by failure, than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat."

~Theodore Roosevelt

"You know what would be a good idea? Naming my son Kermit."

~Theodore Roosevelt