Great quotes

"It's a big, stupid jellyfish!"

"You can worship a goat, if you like, as long as you're paying a tithe"

a XVI century polish bishop Andrzej Zebrzydowski asked about protestantism spreading in his diocese

"Canis mortuus non mordat" ("a dead dog won't bite")

king Stefan Batory asked if a certain guy should be executed

"There are no innocent men, just men who weren't interrogated in a right way"

F. Dzierzynski, chief of soviet secret police.

HUMAN

YOU'VE CHANGED NOTHING

YOUR SPECIES HAS THE ATTENTION OF THOSE INFINITELY YOUR GREATER

THAT WHICH YOU KNOW AS "REAPERS" ARE YOUR SALVATION THROUGH DESTRUCTION

-Harbinger

"This agglomeration which was called and which still calls itself the Holy Roman Empire was neither holy, nor Roman, nor an empire." - Voltaire

"...she never lost hold of the insight, that life cannot be rightly seen in the sole light, cannot be perfectly lived in the sole power, of its externalities." - Sri Aurobindo, on India

"As for my faith, I will not change it. Your own God, as you tell me, was put to death by the very men He created. But my God still looks down on His children." - Atahualpa of Inca

"This land being the first land we have met with in the South Sea and not known to any European nation we have conferred on it the name of Anthoonij Van Diemenslandt." - Abel Tasman upon discovering Tasmania

"L`état, c`est moi." - Louis XIV's infamous quote now used in Civ4; 'I am the state.'

chrissifniotis said:

"As for my faith, I will not change it. Your own God, as you tell me, was put to death by the very men He created. But my God still looks down on His children." - Atahualpa of Inca

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What an epic pwnage for all christians!

I can only be young once. I can be immature forever!

Time you enjoyed wasting was not wasted.

The Internet doesn't make you stupid--it just makes your stupidity more accessible to others.
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Question with boldness the existence of god, for, if there be one, he must approve more of the homage of reason than that of blindfolded fear. ~ Thomas Jefferson

I have a dream that my children and my grandchildren will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the number of funny pictures they have on their hard drive.

"There are no atheists in foxholes" isn't an argument against atheists, it's an argument against foxholes.

As people do better, they start voting like Republicans - unless they have too much education and vote Democratic, which proves there can be too much of a good thing. ~ Karl Rove

I believe that when I die I shall rot, and nothing of my ego will survive. I am not young, and I love life. But I should scorn to shiver with terror at the thought of annihilation. Happiness is nonetheless true happiness because it must come to an end, nor do thought and love lose their value because they are not everlasting. Many a man has borne himself proudly on the scaffold; surely the same pride should teach us to think truly about man's place in the world. Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cosy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigour, and the great spaces have a splendour of their own. ~ Bertrand Russell

All the world's a stage,/And all the men and women merely players;
They have their exits and their entrances;/And one man in his time plays many parts ~ As You Like It, Act II, Scene VII

"A progressive policy regime will control and rationalize financing—control supply." - Dr. Donald Berwick, head of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services

"Drop out of school before your mind rots from exposure to our mediocre educational system. Forget about the Senior Prom and go to the library and educate yourself if you've got any guts." - Frank Zappa

After time adrift among open stars,
along tides of light and through shoals of dust,
I will return to where I began.
-Tali'Zorah vas Normandy nar Rayya

"You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life."
-Winston Churchill

"The shortest route to eastern Asia is due west from Lisbon across the ocean." - Paolo Toscanelli before Colombus' voyage

"Faith is a living, daring confidence in God's grace, so sure and certainthat a man could stake his life on it a thousand times." - Martin Luther

"No distinction is attached to birth among the Turks; the deference to be paid to a man is measured by the position he holds in the public service." - Ogier Ghiselin de Busbecq, the Turkish Letters

"It is necessary to look for the origin of a crusading ideal in the struggle between Christians and Muslims in Spain and consider how the idea of a holy war emerged from this background." - Norman F. Cantor

"Every instant of time is a pinprick of eternity." - Marcus Aurelius

“I have never, on the field of battle, sent you where I was unwilling to go myself; nor would I advise to go a course which I myself was unwilling to pursue. You have been good soldiers; you can be good citizens. Obey the laws, preserve your honor, and the Government to which you have surrendered can afford to be, and will be, magnanimous.”
- Nathan Bedford Forrest

(Boy, was he wrong)

"Friends don't let friends massacre civilians."
-Swann, Starcraft II: Wings of Liberty

VRWCAgent said:

“I have never, on the field of battle, sent you where I was unwilling to go myself; nor would I advise to go a course which I myself was unwilling to pursue. You have been good soldiers; you can be good citizens. Obey the laws, preserve your honor, and the Government to which you have surrendered can afford to be, and will be, magnanimous.”
- Nathan Bedford Forrest

(Boy, was he wrong)

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It probably would have helped if he had obeyed the laws. I suppose murdering Negroes is more important to unlettered Southern savages, though.

"Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read. " Groucho Marx

"Look, little girl.
When you want a problem shot, ask a turian.
When you want a problem talked to death, ask an asari.
When you want a new problem, ask a salarian.
When you want a problem fixed, ask a human."
-Commander Shepard to Kalara Tomi

"While revolutionaries as individuals can be murdered, you cannot kill ideas." - Thomas Sankara

"These men, then, were put to death by the Eleven as designated by the laws, although far from having committed any crime against the state, they had won the greatest naval battle that had ever taken place of Greeks against Greeks and fought in splendid fashion in other battles, and by reason of their individual deeds of valor had set up trophies of victory over their enemies.

To such an extent were the people beside themselves at that time, and provoked unjustly as they were by their political leaders, they vented their rage upon men who were deserving, not of punishment, but of many praises and crowns."
-Diodoros Sikeliotes (XIII.102.4-5), on the Trial of the Generals

My Latin is a bit rusty, does the following phrase translate word for word (I'm not worried about proper grammar) with "Nothing Else Comes Close"?

"Nihil Alius Redit Propinquus"