[Ryokan]

Written around 400 years ago and seems even more relevant today,

“Truth is not what you want it to be; it is what it is. And you must bend to its power or live a lie.”

 

[BobG55]

“For our last number I’d like to ask your help. The people in the cheaper seats clap your hands. And the rest of you, if you’d just rattle your jewellery.” -John Lennon (The Beatles at the Prince of Wales Theatre in London for the Royal Command Performance, Nov.4, 1963.)

 

[dougms3]

"Governments may think and say as they like, but force cannot be eliminated, and it is the only real and unanswerable power. We are told that the pen is mightier than the sword, but I know which of these weapons I would choose."

- "The Unkillable Soldier" Adrian Carton de Wiart

 

[dougms3]

“Hard times create strong men, strong men create good times, good times create weak men, and weak men create hard times.”

- Michael Hopf

 

[Trihexagonal]

Die mother****er die mother****er die! -Dope

 

[Brandfuchs]

I don't make friends easily,
But the ones I do are for life

In fact, I came across this on greeting card inside the Laphroaig whiskey package.

 

[Philimon]

“usurpations … established only on a precarious and abusive right … having been acquired only by force, force could take them away without having grounds for complaint.”

- Rousseau’s Discourse on Inequality (1755)

 

[admiralnorman]

"The definition of an audiophile is 'someone who spends too much money on audio equipment.'" - Zeos

 

[Philimon]

… a deliberate policy of creating refugees wherever possible. An Army general … explained the idea to me as follows: “You’ve got to dry up the sea the guerrillas swim in — that’s the peasants — and the best way to do that is blast the hell out of their villages so they’ll come into our refugee camps. No villages, no guerrillas: simple.”

- the “mere gook rule” transcribed by R.W. Apple

 

[WorksUnit]

and a fact is the most stubborn thing in the world - Mikhail Bulgakov.