Quote Wars!
 

Let's pit the so-called great minds of history against each other in a never-ending battle of verbal diarrhea! Just post a quote that refutes the quote of the person above you. To get it going and give an example:

person 1:

"Life's a bitch and then you die,
that's why we get high
cuz you never know
when you gona go"
-Naz

person 2:

"Life's not a bitch life is a beautiful woman
You only call her a bitch because she wouldn't let you get that pussy
Maybe she didn't feel y'all shared any similar interests
Or maybe you're just an asshole who couldn't sweet talk a princess"
-Aesop Rock

cardboard adolescent:

"Life has become the ideology of its own absence."
-Theodor Adorno

What is life?
- George Bernard Shaw

Life ain't nothin' but a good groove
a good mixtape to put you in the right mood
-Mike D (Beastie Boys)

Life is life...nanananana.

-Opus.

BEWARE, I LIVE, RUN, COWARD!

- Sinistar

Seriously though;

While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die.
-Leonardo Da Vinci

“A person starts dying when they stop dreaming.”

- Brian Williams

"hey now, hey now, don't dream. It's over."
- Crowded House

All that we see or seem, is but a dream within a dream.

- Edgar Allen Poe

"Whether people be of high or low birth, rich or poor, old or young, enlightened or confused, they are all alike in that they will one day die. It is not that we don't know that we are going to die, but we grasp at straws. While knowing that we will die someday, we think that all the others will die before us and that we will be the last to go. Death seems a long way oft .
Is this not shallow thinking? It is worthless and is only a joke within a dream. It will not do to think in such a way and be negligent. insofar as death is always at one's door, one should make sufficient effort and act quickly."

- Hagakure

"It was remarked earlier that the real Form of all things, including man, comes to be a "double exposure" of life and death. All living things can be seen under the Form of death without thereby being separated from their proper Form of life. The real appearance of these things must be seen at ground to rest on the basis of absolute being-sive-nothingness, nothingness-sive-being, or of the absolute non-duality of life and death as we have just described it."

-Keiji Nishitani

Civilization is unbearable, but it is less unbearable at the top.


Timothy Leary

i would be angered by that non-sequitur if it didn't fit timothy leary

And so, my fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country.


John F. Kennedy

I am free of all prejudices. I hate every one equally.
-W. C. Fields
:beer:

A pessimist is man who thinks everybody as nasty as himself, and hates them for it.
- George Bernard Shaw (again.)

A pessimist is never disappointed.
- Jack Cleary

"There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist."
-Mark Twain

“I'm a pessimist because of intelligence, but an optimist because of will”
-Antonio Gramsci

"I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ." - Mahatma Gandhi

Shameless double post but...


"Pessimists say the glass is half empty, optimists say the glass is half full, and engineers say the glass is too big." - Unknown

"Democrats say the glass is half full. Republicans say the glass is mine"
-??????

The only difference between the Republican and Democratic parties is the velocities with which their knees hit the floor when corporations knock on their door.
-- Ralph Nader

“The motivation for war is simple. The U.S. government started the war with Iraq in order to make it easy for U.S. corporations to do business in other countries. They intend to use cheap labor in those countries, which will make Americans rich.”

Michael Moore

Gentlemen, I like war.

Gentlemen, I like war.

Gentlemen, I love war.

I like genocide, I like blitzkrieg, I like aggressive war, I like defensive war, I like sieges,
I like breakthroughs, I like withdrawing, I like cleaning up, I like retreating.

In moors, on highways, in trenches, in plains, on tundra, in desert, on sea, in sky,
in mud, in marshes. I love every aspect of war that takes place on this earth.

I like blowing away the enemy with the thunderous roar of a line of guns going off all at once.
When an enemy is shot to pieces after being thrown high into the air, my heart dances. I like crushing the enemy tank with the 88mm on our tanks. When I mowed down the enemy who fled screaming from the burning tank with a MG, my heart leapt.

I like it when the infantry plow through the enemy's lines with their bayonets all in line.
I remember being moved when seeing new recruits, filled with panic, stabbing an already dead enemy again and again.

Seeing an escapee being strung from a lamp post in the street is unendurably exciting. Seeing a captive be thrown down with a piercing shriek as my own hand fell was spectacular.

When the pitiful resistance came bravely with their small firearms, and we destroyed them and a good chunk of the city with the 4.8 ton bomb, I was at my height.

I like it when we are destroyed with the morning dew. It is a sad thing when the town one is supposed to protect is trampled, and the women and children violated and killed.

I like being squashed and destroyed by England and America's amount of material resources.
Being followed by English and American forces and having to crawl around on the ground like a pesky insect is the ultimate disgrace.

Gentlemen, I desire a war that is like hell.

Gentlemen, my companions in the battalion, who follow me...

Gentlemen what do you desire? Do you desire war as well? Do you desire a war of no mercy?
Do you desire a conflict that stretches the limits of iron, wind, lighting and fire to the limit, one that will destroy all the crows on this planet?

Very well then. I shall give you war.


- The Major - Hellsing.

Jesus, I didn't think that'd kill the thread so hard. Lets carry on from this one?


"War is Hell" - William Tecumseh Sherman

"And for our country t'is a bliss to die." - Alexander Pope

God made mankind in his own image;
Such the perfectionist for including his flaws. - Me

"Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able?
Then he is not omnipotent.
Is he able, but not willing?
Then he is malevolent.
Is he both able and willing?
Then whence cometh evil?
Is he neither able nor willing?
Then why call him God?

- Epicurius 33 A.D.

"Indeed, I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just."

-Thomas Jefferson

"Our obligations to our country never cease but with our lives."

-John Adams