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

"May the force be with you." "Since some people take sense 2 to be the opposite of sense 1, it has been frequently criticized as a misuse. Instead, the use is pure hyperbole intended to gain emphasis, but it often appears in contexts where no additional emphasis is necessary."

" It was all caused by the movie ' Star Wars '; every driver now feels that ' The Force ' will drive
their car for them while they use their hands, and eyes, to call or text somebody, somewhere!! "-cousin lucky

There is no avoiding war; it can only be postponed to the advantage of others. -- Niccolo Machiavelli

It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it. -- Douglas MacArthur

Be peaceful, be courteous, obey the law, respect everyone; but if someone puts his hand on you, send him to the cemetery. -- Malcolm X

John F. Kennedy — Mankind must put an end to war before war puts an end to mankind.

Dwight Eisenhower — Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.

"One man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter"
""It is simply absurd to contend that because people may argue over who is or is not a terrorist that it is therefore impossible to make meaningful distinctions between terrorists and freedom fighters." Is that what those who invoke the phrase are saying? ..."
Me: so if it's obvious that killing is bad... evolve [sarcastically] right Jonah Goldberg!

J.K. Rowling — There is no good and evil, there is only power and those too weak to seek it.

Can't recall or find the name of a kids TV show (think sciencey) back when I was one, it always ended with — Peace Love Recycle — not that they "coined it?"

Charles Dickens — I hope that real love and truth are stronger in the end than any evil or misfortune in the world.

“Sometimes you have to pick the gun up to put the Gun down.” -- Malcolm X

“Pacifism is objectively pro-fascist. This is elementary common sense. If you hamper the war effort of one side, you automatically help out that of the other. Nor is there any real way of remaining outside such a war as the present one. In practice, 'he that is not with me is against me'.” -- George Orwell

“I am not a committed pacifist. I would not hold that it is under all imaginable circumstances wrong to use violence, even though use of violence is in some sense unjust. I believe that one has to estimate relative justices. But the use of violence and the creation of some degree of injustice can only be justified on the basis of the claim and the assessment-which always ought to be undertaken very, very seriously and with a good deal of scepticism that this violence is being exercised because a more just result is going to be achieved.” -- Noam Chomsky

The control we as a whole have in our instinctual animal sides (until eradicated perhaps trough your methods, more likely by education (what happens when you burn your hand)) may slip or be tricked at times but as an older (perhaps "luckier") human I would rather die than kill. I also understand the irony of many dying so I may exist in a "freer" manner but will stupidity and innate behavior ever end?

All science requires mathematics. The knowledge of mathematical things is almost innate in us. This is the easiest of sciences, a fact which is obvious in that no one's brain rejects it; for laymen and people who are utterly illiterate know how to count and reckon.

—Roger Bacon

The tendency to aggression is an innate, independent, instinctual disposition in man... it constitutes the powerful obstacle to culture.

—Sigmund Freud

[Again:] Time, unimaginable tracks of time is the key.

—Charles Robert Darwin — http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Darwin
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darwin%27s_Dangerous_Idea
http://spacecollective.org/Apollo/79...t-was-the-key-

Until we have a standard definition of morality, welfare, and tolerance in our education system globally we will always need the below quote:

Some people need the nose broken in order to listen -- Germany_chris

Prove if children learn best by fear, boredom, drill sergeants, hate,,, or science, physiology, education, love... oh wait that's already been done!

P.s: sorry about the nose.

I've never known a drill sergeant to break ones nose and I know a great many Drill Sergeants in my now 14 years of being in the military or working for it. If you like to argue the effects of the military and its education or brain washing depending on perception as an old vet his memories of the military and their influence on his/her current life, I think you find the efficacy of the military education system while keeping in mind that for many, basic military education lasted 9 weeks.

Military education is for military thus will not evolve in and of itself, nor continuously (if ever) help humanity do so.

Stop The Violence

Perhaps military like government just is or never will be used properly and\or efficiently?

What is individual freedom and what is the proper function of law? Liberty is the absence of human intervention with the endeavors of an individual to utilize his life, liberty, and property (and all adjunct rights flowing therefrom) as he sees fit and for the ends he desires, limited only by the equal liberty of all individuals in society.– Ridgway K. Foley, Jr., The Freeman [June 1971]

You gotta be crazy, you gotta have a real need. You gotta sleep on your toes, and when you're on the street, You gotta be able to pick out the easy meat with your eyes closed. And then moving in silently, down wind and out of sight, You gotta strike when the moment is right without thinking. And after a while, you can work on points for style. Like the club tie, and the firm handshake, A certain look in the eye and an easy smile. You have to be trusted by the people that you lie to, So that when they turn their backs on you, You'll get the chance to put the knife in.

-- R.Waters

i have become death the destroyer of worlds

thats the number one quote.

Now I am become death, the destroyer of worlds.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n8H7Jibx-c0

Graeme Garden- "Get it right!"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ydXtCpYimN8&t=0m54s

A tiger doesn't lose sleep over the opinion of sheep

Bazinga!