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

AronRa: "Psychiatrists define delusion as a fixed false belief that will not change despite evidence to the contrary and they have an exception in their medical journals that this applies except in the case of religion. Really. Seriously. Special exception. Why? If the belief is irrational as religious belief certainly is by definition then why can't we say so? Why are we being inappropriately polite to a debilitating cognitive impediment."

When a child kills an animal for fun, we fear mental illness. When an adult with the capacity to reason does it, we call it "sport." ~ Seth MacFarlane‏

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.

Edmund Burke

Good and bad are opinions, psychiatrists the weathermen of science...

“It's funny how humans can wrap their mind around things and fit them into their version of reality.” ― Rick Riordan, The Lightning Thief

“They're animals, all right. But why are you so godd@m sure that makes us human beings?”
― Stephen King, The Long Walk

“At the very beginning of my creative life I loved humanity. I wanted to do something good for mankind. Soon I understood that it isn’t possible to save mankind.” ― Wisława Szymborska

“Where words lose their meaning, people lose their lives.
― Confucius”

By all accounts it should be Manunkind!!

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Originally Posted by jsbjsb001 The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing - Edmund Burke

Thank you. A quote worthy of this thread. Goes into my quote jar

Originally Posted by dogpatch Thank you. A quote worthy of this thread. Goes into my quote jar

No worries, dogpatch.

That's one of my favourites as well.

Your reply got me thinking and I looked up some more quotes from Edmund Burke, so here's another one for ya below. I don't think it's as good as the last one I posted but, not a bad one anyway's...

The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.

-- Edmund Burke

Apparently, there are "quote" sites around with I assume all (or close to it) known and/or famous quotes.
Like this one and if your after more Edmund Burke quotes, have a look at this.

I personally don't like that quote. We can't define "good men" and "bad" without making them.edu

It's not up to you how you fall. It's up to you how far you let yourself fall and how long it takes you to get back up – Sr. Tac Jeffrey Mitchell

Paul Jorion, an economist (attérré/consternated), sociologist and anthropologist, who had predicted, like many others, the crises of the sub-primes:

« Non seulement elle [ l'espèce humaine ] n'est pas outillée pour faire face à son extinction, mais elle n'a pas véritablement non plus la volonté de le faire - ou plutôt si : elle le fera si on peut lui garantir que cela « rapportera » !»

“Not only is it [the human species] not equipped to consider its own extinction, but it does actually also not have the will to do it - or rather yes: it would, if you could garantee that this will ‘pay well’ !”

„Nicht nur ist sie [die menschliche Spezies] nicht ausgestattet, ihr eigenes Aussterben ins Auge zu fassen, ihr fehlt auch faktisch der Wille dazu - oder eher doch: Sie tut es, wenn man ihr garantieren kann, dass das sich ‚auszahlen wird’!“

Originally Posted by jsbjsb001 Apparently, there are "quote" sites around with I assume all (or close to it) known and/or famous quotes. Like this one and if your after more Edmund Burke quotes, have a look at this.

Thanks. Will look into those two sites later.

“So far, there’s little to indicate they got that wrong” (Limits to Growth was right)
You will get survivalist or not, pull out your favorite Exoplanet or not, design intelligence or not, not many should care about that, either.

Abraham Lincoln: "I am in favor of animal rights as well as human rights. That is the way of a whole human being."

“Thank you for loving me - Love is never free”

This should make us think, maybe... Who invents this stuff.

Yeah... and “Defend the mattress that fall down”. I bet this is one of the more comprehensible recommendations of the I-Ging.

Originally Posted by Michael Uplawski “Thank you for loving me - Love is never free”

i actually like this one.