OT: Good quotes

[Atrocities]

"What do you mean they cut the power? How could they cut the power man, their animals?"

"Game over man, game [censored] over!!!!!!!!!!!" - I love this one The ultimate bad *** pooped himself.

[Strategia_In_Ultima]

"Einstein would turn over in his grave. Not only does God play dice, but the dice are loaded."
-Taken from the splashscreen upon researching Probability Mechanics in Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri.

"Ommmmmmminous Hummmmmmm....."
-Do I need to explain?

There's load more but I gone and forgot 'em.

[Emperor's Child]

I love these:

"No bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country."

"Veni, Vidi, Vici" (I came, I saw, I conquered)

"Nuts"

[Renegade 13]

Raging Deadstar said:
For some reason You are amongst the three people that I suspect would post Nietzsche. I have no idea why... The Others Strangely are Dogscoff and Puke.

Am I really that predictable?

[b]"If you want to create an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe." - Carl Sagan

[El_Phil]

"There's an ugly name for those who do things the hard way." The Cheshire Cat

"If you only ever read one book in your life, I highly recommend you keep your mouth shut." LAT

"All artists are willing to suffer for their art. So few are willing to learn to draw." Don't know who, but it is worringly true.

[narf poit chez BOOM]

Spock quotes: http://tvsothertenpercent.tripod.com...rek/spock.html

[Puke]

"History will be kind to me, for I intend to write it."
-Churchill

"Vae victis" (Woe to the conquered)
-Brennus, leader of the Celtic army ransoming the city of Rome in 390 BCE.

"I don't suffer from insanity, I enjoy every minute of it!"
-unknown / various

and because its expected of me:
"Fanatics are picturesque, mankind would rather see gestures than listen to reasons. "
-RD knows who...

[Baron Munchausen]

Raging Deadstar said:

For some reason You are amongst the three people that I suspect would post Nietzsche. I have no idea why... The Others Strangely are Dogscoff and Puke.

Then Agin I'm about to Quote some Churchill, so I can't really talk Just trying to find one short enough, a great man for speeches but long winded at times

"If Hitler invaded Hell I would make at least a favourable reference to the devil in the House of Commons."

But Nietzsche produces such great quotes! Twilight of the Idols, for example.

#1 -- Idleness is the beginning of all psychology. What? Should psychology be a vice?
(Footnote by the translator, Walter Kaufman, explains that there is a German proverb: Idleness is the beginning of all vices.)

#3 -- To live alone one must be a beast or a god, says Aristotle. Leaving out the third case: one must be both -- a philosopher.

#8 -- Out of life's school of war: What does not destroy me, makes me stronger.

His early work is not so famous, but equally interesting.

from Human, All Too Human

#87 -- Luke 18:14 improved "He that humbleth himself wants to be exalted."

#499 -- Friend. -- Fellow rejoicing [Mitfreude], not fellow suffering [Mitleiden], makes the friend.

#536 -- Value of tasteless opponents -- Sometimes one stays faithful to a cause only becaus its opponents are unfailingly tasteless.

[Puke]

how about:

"morality is the pack-instinct of the human species"

or something like that..

[Baron Munchausen]

Puke said:
how about:

"morality is the pack-instinct of the human species"

or something like that..

Nietzsche usually used 'herd' rather than 'pack'. But there are nuances even in his condemnations:

Human, All Too Human, #233 -- For the despisers of 'herd humanity'. -- He who regards men as a herd and flees from them as fast as he can will certainly be overtaken by them and gored by their horns.

But, over-all he does despise public morality, that is, rigid notions of 'custom' and 'propriety':

Daybreak #19 -- Morality makes stupid. -- Custom represents the experiences of men of earlier times as to what they supposed useful and harmful -- but the sense for custom (morality) applies, not to these experiences as such, but to the age, the sanctity, the indiscussability of the custom. And so this feeling is a hindrance to the acquisition of new experiences and the correction of customs: that is to say, morality is a hindrance to the creation of new and better customs: it makes stupid.