Quotation Thread!

[RetroLounge]

Almost 90 years later this quote is still true...

"Printer's ink has been running a race against gunpowder these many, many years.
Ink is handicapped, in a way, because you can blow up a man with gunpowder in half a second,
while it may take twenty years to blow him up with a book. But the gunpowder destroys
itself along with its victim, while a book can keep on exploding for centuries."

Chistopher Morley, 1919, The Haunted Bookshop

Post a quote of your own liking...

RL

[Aristus]

1. "Never doubt that a small group of dedicated people can effect change for the better.

Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has."

Margaret Mead.

[Rambis]

2. Ike warning

In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.

We must never let the weight of this combination endanger our liberties or democratic processes. We should take nothing for granted. Only an alert and knowledgeable citizenry can compel the proper meshing of the huge industrial and military machinery of defense with our peaceful methods and goals, so that security and liberty may prosper together.

[BOSSHOG]

3. "Whether you think you can or you can't you're right"

Henry Ford - 1903.

[querelle]

4. Okay. Here's Mine.

Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example. - Mark Twain

Q

[otherlander]

5. Okay.

My national resources consist of two joints of
marijuana millions of genitals an unpublishable
private literature that goes 1400 miles an hour
and twenty-five-thousand mental institutions.
I say nothing about my prisons nor the millions of
underprivileged who live in my flowerpots
under the light of five hundred suns.
I have abolished the whorehouses of France, Tangiers
is the next to go.