Saturday, November 13, 2004

FARK.com: (1213940) What's your favorite quote, and where's it from?

FARK.com: (1213940) What's your favorite quote, and where's it from? (comments)

Heres some of the good ones:

"By the time you realize your parents were right, you have children who don't believe you"
-Anonymous

"When you're going through Hell, keep going."
-- Winston Churchill

"Ignorance isn't intellect."

"Being better at things doesn't make you better than people."

"Any action can be justified when viewed from different perspectives. Only the true motivation is of any importance."

The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' (I found it!) but 'That's funny ...' - Isaac Asimov

"Knowledge speaks; wisdom listens." Jimi Hendrix

"They who would give up an essential liberty for temporary security, deserve neither liberty or security"
-Benjamin Franklin
(at the heart of conserviative ideas)

"It is seldom that liberty of any kind is lost all at once"
-David Hume

"Are people getting dumber or louder?"
-Mayor Quimby
(I have asked myself this alot lately)

"Freedom is the right to be wrong, not the right to do wrong."

Just because I don't care doesn't mean I don't understand!
--Homer Simpson

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

In reference to the Ben Franklin quote, are you saying that conservatives are trying to remove liberties for temporary security? If so, I agree whole heartedly! That's the whole problem of the Patriot Act. Attempting to keep temporary security by removing many of our basic liberties.

Ookami Snow said...

The ideas of conservatives and the Patriot Act do not mesh.

Anonymous said...

So why did conservatives bully it through congress?

Ookami Snow said...

Reply as new topic (patroit act)