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I plan to update this Topic with new quotes on a daily basis. I will try to keep them relevant in terms of current events and cultural attitudes. Please feel free to add quotes that you enjoy as well. They will be appreciated.
#1: “Politics is downstream from culture.” – Andrew Brietbart
#2: “Empires do not suffer emptiness of purpose at the time of their creation. It is when they have become established that aims are lost and replaced by vague ritual.” – Words of Muad’Dib by the Princess Irulan (Dune Messiah, by Frank Herbert)
#3: “And there was a time in this country, a long time ago, when reading wasn’t just for fags and neither was writing. People wrote books and movies, movies that had stories so you cared whose ass it was and why it was farting, and I believe that time can come again!” — Private Joe Bowers, Idiocracy
#4: “If you don’t make stuff, there is no stuff.” – Elon Musk
#5: “And if you think tough men are dangerous, wait until you see what weak men are capable of.” – Jordan B. Peterson, 12 Rules to Life: An Antidote to Chaos
#6: “A King may move a man, a father may claim a son, but remember that even when those who move you be Kings, or men of power, your soul is in your keeping alone. When you stand before God, you cannot say, “But I was told by others to do thus.” Or that, “Virtue was not convenient at the time.” This will not suffice. Remember that.” – King Baldwin IV, Kingdom of Heaven
#7: “One of the most fascinating lessons I’ve absorbed about life is that the struggle is good.” – Joe Rogan
#8: ” See, according to Cocteau’s plan, I’m the enemy. Cause I like to think, I like to read. I’m into freedom of speech and freedom of choice. I’m the kind if guy who wants to sit in a greasy spoon and think, “Gee, should I have the T-bone steak or the jumbo rack of barbecued ribs with the side order of gravy fries?” I want high cholesterol. I want to eat bacon, butter and buckets of cheese, okay? I want to smoke a Cuban cigar the size of Cincinnati in a non-smoking section. I wanna run through the streets naked with green Jello all over my body reading Playboy magazine. Why? Because I suddenly might feel the need to. Okay, pal? I’ve seen the future, you know what it is? It’s a 47-year-old virgin sittin’ around in his beige pajamas, drinking a banana-broccoli shake singing “I’m an Oscar-Meyer Wiener”. You wanna live on top, you gotta live Cocteau’s way. What he wants, when he wants, how he wants. Your other choice: come down here, maybe starve to death.” – Edgar Friendly, Demolition Man
”Knowledge is power but powerless if you got it and you do not acknowledge it” Royce da 5’9 on Eminem’s track Not Alike. One of my favorite lines in a rap verse
#10: “Hey, kid. Welcome to the war.” – Lieutenant Mike Harrigan, Predator 2
#11: “Okay. The answer to the ultimate question of life, the universe, and everything is . . . 42” – Deep Thought, Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
#12: “If freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.” – George Washington
#13: “What I don’t understand is… when you owe a bookie a lot of money, and he, say, blows off one of your toes, you still owe him the money. Doesn’t seem fair to me. Especially when he’s gonna kill me in four days anyway.” – Dr. Farthing, Dirty Work
#14: “We had such potential… such promise. But we squandered our gifts, our intelligence. Our blind pursuit of technology only sped us quicker to our doom. Our world is ending. But life… must go on.” – Scientist, 9
#15: “There’s no perfect world,” he said, reminding Dusk uncomfortably of what his father had mumbled just before he died. “There’s no homeland safe from predators. There will always be predators, and ones bigger than you and me. We must make use of whatever skills we have to survive. Freaks like us might have an advantage. Your ability to fly may be your salvation. I used to think my hunter’s teeth and strength gave me an advantage.” He gave a small, self-mocking growl. “Now I know I must be smarter and quicker to excel.” – Carnassial, Darkwing
#16: “You’re off the edge of the map, mate. Here there be monsters!” – Captain Barbossa, Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl