Great Quotes II: Source and Context are Key

[bugwar]

"I have a cunning plan" Baldrick

I thought it was "I have a cunning and subtle plan"?

 

[Borachio]

Link to video.

 

[Thorvald of Lym]

"The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that in glory and triumph they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot. Think of the endless cruelties visited by the inhabitants of one corner of this pixel on the scarcely distinguishable inhabitants of some other corner. How frequent their misunderstandings, how eager they are to kill one another, how fervent their hatreds. Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the universe, are challenged by this point of pale light. Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity - in all this vastness - there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves. The Earth is the only world known, so far, to harbor life. There is nowhere else, at least in the near future, to which our species could migrate. Visit, yes. Settle, not yet. Like it or not, for the moment, the Earth is where we make our stand. It has been said that astronomy is a humbling and character-building experience. There is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world. To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly with one another and to preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we've ever known."

- Carl Sagan, Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space, 1994

 

[Traitorfish]

"Conservatives say if you don't give the rich more money, they'll lose the incentive to invest. As for the poor, they tell us they've lost all incentive because we've given them too much money."

-George Carlin

 

[hobbsyoyo]

^^^^^That quote x1,000,000,000

er, the Sagan quote I mean

Can't wait for the new Cosmos series to come out. Very Excite!

 

[Civciv5]

"We have to stay true to our convictions, no matter how high the price."
-Pope Joan

 

[WindFish]

“Ideas are more powerful than guns. We would not let our enemies have guns, why should we let them have ideas.”

- Joseph Stalin

 

[Optical]

"Sometimes you have to go up really high to see how small you are." - Felix Baumgartner

actually, that might just be good enough to sig.

 

[Borachio]

"I must go down to the shore again,
To the lonely sea and sky;
For I've left my shoes and socks there,
And I must see if they're dry."

Spike Milligan

 

[del62]

Louis Fürnberg

The Party, the Party, she is always right!
And Comrades, so it will always remain…
Since he who fights for the right, is always right…
He who defends mankind is always right….
As raised to life by Lenin’s spirit, as welded by Stalin
The Party, the Party, the Party!

 

[Traitorfish]

Heh, tankies.

 

[hobbsyoyo]

"We live in a society absolutely dependent on science and technology and yet have cleverly arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology. That's a clear prescription for disaster."
Carl Sagan (RIP)

 

[Arakhor]

Hear, hear!

 

[Borachio]

e.e. cummings

kumrads die because they're told)
kumrads die before they're old
(kumrads aren't afraid to die
kumrads don't
and kumrads won't
believe in life)and death knows whie

(all good kumrads you can tell
by their altruistic smell
moscow pipes good kumrads dance)
kumrads enjoy
s.freud knows whoy
the hope that you may mess your pance

every kumrad is a bit
of quite unmitigated hate
(travelling in a futile groove
god knows why)
and so do i
(because they are afraid to love

A bit harsh on communism, there. I fear.

 

[hobbsyoyo]

@Arakhor - It's really amazing when you come across something written that is in essence only common sense but is nonetheless absolutely genius.

 

[Borachio]

So? Science is just magic, isn't it? What's to understand?

 

[hobbsyoyo]

So? Science is just magic, isn't it? What's to understand?

Impact dynamics so you can understand the damage my fist is about to do to your face, homeboy.

 

[Borachio]

Oooer!

(And there was me thinking I was making a swanky Clarke reference.)

 

[hobbsyoyo]

Oooer!

(And there was me thinking I was making a swanky Clarke reference.)

Oh I knew what you were doing, but anything that takes away from the truth of that Sagan quote deserves a harsh KE=.5mv^2 to the FACE.

 

[Borachio]

Bleh! You and whose army? You big bully.