OK, let's have a "Quotes" thread!

If only someone at work could get this one: "An ounce of preparation is worth a pound of perseverance."

“We must all suffer from one of two pains: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret. The difference is discipline weighs ounces while regret weighs tons.”

Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government, owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people. Theodore Roosevelt

"Fate is fluid, destiny is in the hands of men."

Government have no right to interfere with the pursuits of individuals, as guaranteed by those general laws, by offering encouragements and granting privileges to any particular class of industry, or any select bodies of men, inasmuch as all classes of industry and all men are equally important to the general welfare, and equally entitled to protection. William Leggett

Call it what you will--taxes, penalties, fees, fines, regulations, tariffs, tickets, permits, surcharges, tolls, asset forfeitures, foreclosures, etc.--but the only word that truly describes the constant bilking of the American taxpayer by the American government and its corporate partners is theft.-John W. Whitehead

'Right-to-lifers shoot to kill'

"In God we trust"

The upper classes, as Oscar Wilde noted, are unspeakably vile, and would be laughable if they werent so dangerous, nasty to the core and the very opposite of life-affirming. The middle classes, like their counterparts everywhere, buy the government line unquestioningly and are dangerously stupid. The lower classes are down to earth and friendly.-Linh Dinh

A vast swath of the populace never reads a book and cant go more than a few minutes without checking their iGadget to view the latest funny cat video, the latest update on Kim Kardashians ass, Bruce/Caitlyn Jenners courage, or Lamar Odoms latest whorehouse escapade. Our country is drowning in a sea of irrelevance as our infinite craving for diversions and triviality overwhelms any thoughts of confronting our oppressors. The adoration of technology has degraded our ability to think and allowed the Deep State to control the masses by amusing them to death.-Jim Quinn

"You can see the IQ points dropping!"

A friend's girlfriend watching me play a game on his Playstation.

She was prolly rite.

Above this race of men stands an immense and tutelary power, which takes upon itself alone to secure their gratifications, and to watch over their fate. That power is absolute, minute, regular, provident, and mild. It would be like the authority of a parent, if, like that authority, its object was to prepare men for manhood; but it seeks, on the contrary, to keep them in perpetual childhood: It is well content that the people should rejoice, provided they think of nothing but rejoicing. Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America [1835]

If it moves, Salute it. If it don't, paint it.

"Irony" "is" "bliss."

Just another day in the United States of America, another day of gunfire, panic, and fear.-BBC

"Who does control the world?" - Noam Chomsky - BBC interview 2003

Interviewer gets fukd by Noam Chomsky