Profound Sayings

[Da Skinna]

The ones that really make you think twice regarding some situation. I got dozens, but only a few at the top of my mind, here's the first:

"History is damned to repeat its evil things when good men stand by and do nothing to learn from it."

A hybrid of history being damned to repeat itself and the evil things happen when good people stand by and do nothing.

Got any?

[Ummagumma]

Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.
More of a quote (by Tom [somebody]?), but..

[Sleeper]

Without God there is no free will, mere chance, and fortune's follies. - not me

[Da Skinna]

"Whoever is playing, the game is still roulette."

It disregards pre-existing beliefs and states matter-of-factly that it doesn't really matter who's throwing the dice, the game is still the same.

[Cúchulainn]

"A broken clock is still right, twice a day"

-Someone

[Burnum]

We are all visitors to this time, this place. We are just passing through. Our purpose here is to observe, to learn, to grow, to love... and then we return home.- I think I heard it on Living Black.

Those who lose dreaming are lost.

[King Edward III]

I do not know with what weapons world war three will be fought, but I know that world war four will be fought with sticks and stones. - Albert Einstein.

[Big War Bird]

Some people are like a Slinky ... not really good for anything, but you still can't help but smile when you shove them down the stairs.


Why does a slight tax increase cost you $200.00 and a substantial tax Cut saves you $0.30?

[Kiljan Arslan]

Stalin

1 death is a tragedy, a million is a statistic.

A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business.
Henry Ford

Plus of course my two.sigs

[Bovril]

Let them call me a rebel, and welcome; I feel no concern from it. For I should suffer the misery of devils, were I to make a whore of my soul.

Thomas Paine. My favourite quote ever.

edit: How apropriate that my 666th post should be about rebels.

[Farnan]

"Learning is not virtue but the means to bring us an acquaintance with it. Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful. Let these be your motives to action through life, the relief of the distressed, the detection of frauds, the defeat of oppression, and diffusion of happiness." - General Nathaniel Greene

This means no matter how much you learn, how much you know it is all worthless unless you use it for good.

The other quote in my sig:

"America is not at war, the military is at war. America is at the mall."

This references how despite the fact that America is at war, life goes on normally for anyone not connected to the military. It also is to show the apathy of the average citizen who will put a support our troops bumpersticker but doesn't really care about the soldiers.

And finally:

We the willing
Led by the unknowing
Have done the impossible
For the ungrateful.
We have done so much
With so little
We are now qualified
To do anything with nothing.

[Pra]

"Pra is sweet"

-Pra

[MightyDane]

But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.

Carl Sagan

[Cúchulainn]

Nations have their egos, just like individuals.


-James Joyce

[tabacila]

All battles are destined to be fought twice. Once on the field and then endlessly in the hearts and minds of men.

[Da Skinna]

Wow, so many good ones, keep it up.

[Winter]

Laws are silent in times of war.
- Cicero

Something unfortunately relevant today.

Every man is guilty of all the good he didn't do.
- Voltaire

[Sleeper]

Are you suggesting there should be one law for the rich and another for the poor?

No, my dear, we are discussing the world we live in, not the one we wish to.

[Winter]

Wisely, and slow. They stumble that run fast.
- William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet

[Captain Blackadder]

A man with one watch knows what time it is; a man with two watches is never quite sure. ~Lee Segall

Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth. ~Ludwig Börne


The obscure we see eventually. The completely obvious, it seems, takes longer. ~Edward R. Murrow

If you think you're free, there's no escape possible. ~Ram Dass


And here is one I find very apt for many situations I find myself in that many debates I have had

You can't reason someone out of a position they didn't reason themselves into. ~Author Unknown