One in a row....

"Any one worth shooting is worth shooting twice" - Anonymous CCW Instructor

"Fast is fine, but accurate is final. The trick is learning to take your time when you're in a hurry." - W. Earp

If someone has a gun and is trying to kill you, it would be reasonable to shoot back with your own gun. - His Holiness, the XIV Dalai Lama (May 15, 2001, The Seattle Times), speaking at the Educating Heart Summit in Portland, Oregon, when asked by a girl how to react when a shooter takes aim at a classmate

.....Certainly, the intrinsic value of life and the duty to love oneself no less than others are the basis of a true right to self-defense ... legitimate defense can be not only a right but a grave duty for someone responsible for another's life, the common good of the family or of the State. Unfortunately, it happens that the need to render the aggressor incapable of causing harm sometimes involves taking his life. In this case, the fatal outcome is attributable to the aggressor whose actions brought it about, even though he may not be morally responsible because of a lack of the use of reason.
-Pope John Paul II, Encyclical Letter from 1995, EVANGELIUM VITAE

Though defensive violence will always be a "sad necessity" in the eyes of men of principle, it would be still more unfortunate if wrongdoers should dominate just men.
-St. Augustine (354-430 AD)

Democracy is not a state in which people act like sheep. Under democracy, individual liberty of opinion and action is jealously guarded.
-Mahatma Gandhi, The Essential Gandhi, Louis Fischer

I used to issue leaflets asking people to enlist as recruits. One of the arguments I had used was distasteful to the Commissioner: 'Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the Act depriving a whole nation of arms as the blackest. If we want the Arms Act to be repealed, if we want to learn the use of arms, here is a golden opportunity. If the middle class render voluntary help to Government in the hour of its trial, distrust will disappear, and the ban on possessing arms will be withdrawn.' The Commissioner referred to this and said that he appreciated my presence in the conference in spite of the differences between us. And I had to justify my standpoint as courteously as I could.
-Mohandas Karamchand Mahatma Gandhi, Indian political and spiritual leader (1869-1948), The Story of my Experiments with Truth - An Autobiography (1927)

I would rather have India resort to arms in order to defend her honor than that she should in a cowardly manner become or remain a helpless witness to her own dishonor.
-Mahatma Gandhi, The Essential Gandhi, Louis Fischer,

When there is absolutely no choice but between violence and cowardice, I would choose violence
-Mahatma Gandhi, The Essential Gandhi, Louis Fischer

Government control gives rise to fraud, suppression of truth, intensification of the black market and artificial scarcity. Above all, it unmans the people and deprives them of initiative. It undoes the teaching of self help that they have been learning for a generation. It makes them spoon fed. This is a tragedy next only, if indeed not equal to the fratricide, on a vast scale and the insane exchange of population resulting in unnecessary deaths, starvation, wand want of proper residence and clothing, more poignant for the coming of inclement weather.
-Mahatma Gandhi, The Essential Gandhi, Louis Fischer

If someone comes to kill you, rise up and kill him first.
-The Talmud

Death for the wicked, conclude our Sages, is a benefit for them and for the world while death for the righteous is bad for them and bad for the world.
-The Talmud, Sanhedrin 72a

When a strong man, armed, keepeth his palace, his goods are in peace.
-Luke 11:21

Then said He unto them, but now, he that hath a purse, let him take it, and likewise his scrip: and he that hath no sword, let him sell his garment, and buy one.... And they said, Lord, here are two swords. And he said unto them, it is enough.
-Luke 22:36

If the thief is found breaking in, and he is struck so that he dies, there shall be no guilt for his bloodshed. If the sun has risen on him, there shall be guilt for his bloodshed. He should make full restitution; if he has nothing, then he shall be sold for his theft.
-Exodus 22:2-3

Except those who believe and do good and remember Allah much, and defend themselves after they are oppressed; and they who act unjustly shall know to what final place of turning they shall turn back.
-The Koran, The Poets: 26.227

And whoever defends himself after his being oppressed, these it is against whom there is no way to blame. The way to blame is only against those who oppress men and revolt in the earth unjustly; these shall have a painful punishment.
-The Koran, The Counsel: 42.36 - 42.42

"Guns, like some peoples' brains, are inanimate objects." - some dude on another forum

"To my mind it is wholly irresponsible to go into the world incapable of preventing violence, injury, crime, and death. How feeble is the mindset to accept defenselessness. How unnatural. How cheap. How cowardly. How pathetic." --Ted Nugent

"I dream of a world where I can buy alcohol, tobacco and firearms at the same drive thru window and use them all on the way home" --Dogbert

"The unarmed man is not just defenseless, he is also contemptible." -- Machiavelli

"Remember folks, never assume malice where stupidity will suffice." --Tamara

"A gun is a tool, Marion. No better or no worse than the man using it." - Shane

A gun in the hand, beats a cop on the phone.

9-1-1 = Government sponsored Dial-a-Prayer

"I said I never had much use for one, Never said I didn't know how to use one"
Tom Selleck in Quigley Down Under

Good shooters are made - not born. - Fred Misseldine

Use Enough Gun -Robert Ruark

"Republicans act like every day is the 4th of July... Democrats act like every day is April 15th." I believe Ronald Reagan said that one.

"Democrats think that when they die, they'll be judged by a man in a wheelchair from Dutchess County." Lets see how many history buffs pick up on that one.

A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel. - Robert Frost

All of us need to be reminded that the Federal Government did not create the States; the States created the Federal Government. - Ronald Reagan

"Certainly there is no hunting like the hunting of man, and those who have hunted armed men long enough and like it, never really care for anything else thereafter." - Hemingway

“One bleeding-heart type asked me in a recent interview if I did not agree the ‘violence begets violence’. I told him that it is my earnest endeavor to see that it does. I would very much like to ensure-and in some cases I have-that any man who offers violence to his fellow citizen begets a whole lot more in return than he can enjoy.” - Col. Jeff Cooper, from “Cooper vs. Terrorism” Guns & Ammo Annual, 1975

"Never look behind you, something might be gaining." Satchel Paige

"If money can fix it, it ain't a problem" anon

"We would not die in that man's company
That fears his fellowship to die with us."
From King Henry V's St Crispian's Day speech, in Henry V

"Never point a gun at anything you're not willing to destroy. The corrallary to that is that if someone points a gun at you they're willing to kill you. You are authorized to take that hard." - Jeff Cooper

"This is my boomstick!"
-Bruce Campbell

"The world is filled with violence. Because criminals carry guns, we decent law-abiding citizens should also have guns. Otherwise they will win and the decent people will lose."
-- James Earl Jones, actor

"A strong body makes the mind strong. As to the species of exercise, I advise the gun. While this gives a moderate exercise to the body, it gives boldness, enterprise, and independence to the mind. Games played with the ball, and others of that nature, are too violent for the body, and stamp no character on the mind. Let your gun therefore be the constant companion of your walks." - Thomas Jefferson

"...Let us then enunciate the functions of a state and we shall easily elicit what we want: First there must be food; secondly, arts for life requires many instruments; thirdly, there must be arms, for the members of a community have need of them, and in their own hands, too, in order to maintain authority both against disobedient subjects and against external assailants ..."
~ Aristotle

"Americans have the right and advantage of being armed, unlike the people of other countries, whose leaders are afraid to trust them with arms."
~ James Madison

"Before a standing army can rule, the people must be disarmed, as they are in almost every country in Europe."
~ Noah Webster

"After a shooting spree, they always want to take the guns away from the people who didn't do it."
~ William Burroughs

If you are in a fair fight, your tactics suck!" - FedGunner

"You cannot invade the mainland United States. There would be a rifle behind each blade of grass." --Japanese Admiral Yamamoto, 1941

Igitur qui desiderat pacem, praeparet bellum."
(Thus, let him who wishes for peace prepare for war.)
-- Flavius Vegetius Renatus. ( fl. c. 375 AD)

When you need to shoot, shoot; don't talk. - Eli Wallach as Tuco, in The Good, The Bad & The Ugly.

"Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy." -Benjamin Franklin

Clint Smith, director of Thunder Ranch, is part drill instructor, part stand-up comic. Here are a few of his observations on tactics, firearms, self defense and life as we know it in the civilized world.

Tactics:
"So a guy says, ‘I’m good! I move, I shoot, I communicate.’ Yeah, but can you do it on the ground? Because that’s where you’re gonna be in a fight."

Gunfights:
"It’s real different when the bad guy shoots back. It doesn’t mean you’re going to lose, it just makes the story more interesting afterward."

Caution:
"The best example of good training is to never get in a fight."

Defensive Driving:
"If you’re accosted, don’t get out of the car. Put it in some other gear and put both feet on the gas. Clint’s school of driving-add power!"

Running Out Of Ammo:
"If pointing an empty gun at your opponent makes him duck, you may live for an extra two seconds-and who knows? I may find another gun, the bad guy may give up, or the ammo fairy may drop me a magazine."

Target Recognition:
"If we’re going down a hall and I see the end of a double barrel shotgun, I better communicate to my partner, ‘cause I can be pretty sure it’s not the Easter bunny on the other end."

Marksmanship:
"Open up the ground between you and the threat. At arm’s distance, you opponent doesn’t have to be good, he just has to be lucky."

Coordination:
"It doesn’t do me any good to have a partner and shoot ‘em-although I’ve had some partners I’d like to shoot."

Verbal Skills:
"You better learn to communicate real well, because when you’re out there on the street, you’ll have to talk to a lot more people than you’ll have to shoot, or at least that’s the way I think it’s supposed to work."

Big Bore Sixguns:
"...He asked, ‘Did you hit him?’ Hey, I don’t know, but he was smokin’ when he ran outta here."

Counting Your Shots:
"It’s our experience that in a fight you will continue to shoot the gun until the threat goes away or until the gun is empty."

Hesitation:
"Don’t be a deer caught in the headlights of the Kenworth of life!"

Long Guns Vs. Handguns:
"They say you can’t use a rifle or shotgun indoors because a bad guy will grab the barrel. Yeah? Well, he better hang on, ‘cause I’m gonna light him up and it’ll definitely be an "E" ticket ride."

Conserving Ammo:
"People ask, ‘What do you do if the guy’s on drugs?’ Shoot ‘em! ‘But what if it doesn’t work?’ Shoot ‘em some more!"

The Defensive Mindset:
"The only reason we would plant our feet is to dig ‘em real good so we can run, ‘cause we’re about to get the hell out of here."

The Survival Instinct:
"Anyone can understand shooting to protect themselves. You give me five minutes and I’ll make anyone on this planet mad enough to shoot me. The real question is, will they have that much time in a fight? You need to make that decision before you start to fight-only you life depends on it."

More:
"The handgun would not be my choice of weapon if I knew I was going to a fight. I’d choose a rifle, a shotgun, an RPG or an atomic bomb instead."

"The two most important rules in a gunfight are: always cheat and always win."

"Every time I teach a class, I discover I don’t know something."

"Don’t forget, incoming fire has the right of way."

"Make (your attacker) advance through a wall of bullets. I may get killed with my own gun, bet he’s gonna have to beat me to death with it, ‘cause it’s going to be empty."

"If you’re not shootin’, you should be loadin’. If you’re not loadin’, you should be movin’. If you’re not movin’, someone’s gonna cut your head off and put it on a stick."

"When you reload (in low light encounters), don’t put your flashlight in your back pocket. If you light yourself up, you’ll look like an angel or the tooth fairy - and you’re gonna be one of ‘em pretty soon."

"Do something. It may be wrong, but do something."

"Nothing adds a little class to a sniper course like a babe in a ghille suit."

"Shoot what’s available, as long as it’s available, until something else becomes available."

"If you carry a gun, people will call you paranoid. That’s ridiculous. If I have a gun, what in the hell do I have to be paranoid about?"

"Don’t shoot fast, shoot good."

"You can say ‘stop’ or ‘alto’ or use any other word you think will work, but I’ve found that a large bore muzzle pointed at someone’s head is pretty much the universal language."

"You have the rest of your life to solve your problems. How long you live depends on how well you do it."

"You cannot save the planet. You may be able to save yourself and your family."

"(Thunder Ranch) will be here as long as you’ll have us or until someone makes us go away, and either way it’ll be exciting."

"They say you can’t use a rifle or shotgun indoors because a bad guy will grab the barrel. Yeah? Well, he better hang on, ‘cause I’m gonna light him up and it’ll definitely be an "E" ticket ride."
"Make (your attacker) advance through a wall of bullets. I may get killed with my own gun, bet he’s gonna have to beat me to death with it, ‘cause it’s going to be empty."



"Gun Control? It's the best thing you can do for crooks and gangsters," Gravano said. "I want you to have nothing. If I'm a bad guy, I'm always gonna have a gun. Safety Locks? You will pull the trigger with a lock on, and I'll pull the trigger. We'll see who wins."
--Sammy "the Bull" Gravano, the Mafia turncoat, when asked about gun control in an interview in Vanity Fair.


"False is the idea of utility that sacrifices a thousand real advantages for one imaginary or trifling inconvenience; what would take fire from men because it burns, and water because one may drown in it; that has no remedy for evils, except destruction. The laws that forbid the carrying of arms are laws of such a nature. They disarm those only who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes. Can it be supposed that those who have the courage to violate the most sacred laws of humanity, the most important of the code, will respect the less important and arbitrary ones, which can be violated with impunity, and which, if strictly obeyed, would put an end to personal liberty - so dear to men, so dear to the enlightened legislator - and subject innocent persons to all the vexations that the guilty alone ought to suffer? Such laws make things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants; they serve rather to encourage than prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man.. They ought to be designated as laws not preventive but fearful of crimes, produced by the impression of a few isolated facts, and not by thoughtful consideration of the inconveniences and advantages of a universal decree." --Cesare Beccaria, On Crimes and Punishments 87-88 (H. Paulucci transl. 1963).-- (Thomas Jefferson copied this passage in full in his Commonplace Book 314 (G. Chinard ed. 1926), which was "the source book and repertory of Jefferson's ideas on government." Id. at 4.)

“Diplomacy without arms is like music without instruments.”
—Frederick the Great

There exists among some a misbegotten notion that self defense is somehow incompatible with civilized society. –Anonymous

The weapon is a delight because it is simultaneously a tool, an artifact, and a symbol of a willingness to resist others who would, by unjust and injudicious force, attempt to impose their will on us. –Roscoe Benson

If you look like a rabbit, and act like a rabbit, you will be treated like a rabbit – prey for all predators. –Stony Loft

As with sharks, humans usually “bump” before they “bite.” –John Farnam

Blame, and complicity in murder, attaches to all those who willfully refuse to recognize the limits of diplomacy and the duty of active self-defense. –George Will

It does not do, to countenance the threat of being killed, to commit suicide.
--William F. Buckley

If you are not prepared to use force to defend civilization, then be prepared to accept barbarism. –Thomas Sowell

"If you are unwilling to defend even your own lives, then you are like mice trying to 'negotiate' with owls. You regard their ways as 'wrong.' They regard you as dinner." --John Farnam

I have yet to hear anyone afflicted with the "gun control" disability dial 9-1-1 and specify, "Now please be sure to send the kind of cops who are disarmed. If you can't do that, we'd rather you not send anyone at all to stop the men who are holding my daughter at knifepoint, because in this household we don't believe that guns ever solve anything." —VIN SUPRYNOWICZ

Other than supporting The Bill of Rights, does anything constitute treason in this country any more? — Minority Mike

When you come for my guns, bring yours. You’ll need them. -Larry Simoneaux

One of the greatest delusions in the world is the hope that the evils in this world are to be cured by legislation." - Thomas B. Reed (1886)

"That all men are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, and that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, and free money when unemployed, and free medical care, and a free house with a yard for the kids, and free public transportation, and free education, and a guaranteed well-paying job, and cheap cable TV, and a pension that keeps abreast of inflation, and a steak every Friday, and free basketball hoops, and a new car." — The Declaration of Independence, Liberal Edition.

If you think it's wrong to kill someone who is about to kill you, you are too stupid to be allowed to vote. — Michael James

"If the personal freedoms guaranteed by the Constitution inhibit the government's ability to govern the people, we should look to limit those guarantees." -President Bill Clinton, August 12, 1993


This is not a quote but a funny little anecdote. I think is it great.

An officer in the U.S. Naval reserve was attending a conference that included admirals from both the U.S. Navy and the French Navy. At a cocktail reception, he found himself in a small group that included personnel from both navies. The French admiral started complaining that whereas Europeans learned many languages, Americans learned only English. He then asked: "Why is it that we have to speak English in these conferences rather than you speak French?"
Without hesitating, the American Admiral replied: "Maybe it's because the Brits, Canadians, Aussies and Americans arranged it so you would not have to speak in German."

‘‘The great object is that every man be armed. Everyone who is able may have a gun.’’
— Patrick Henry

‘‘To preserve liberty, it is essential that the whole body of people always possess arms, and be taught alike, especially when young, how to use them...’’
— Richard Henry Lee, 1787

"A gentleman will seldom,if ever, need a gun. However, if he does need one, he will probably need it very badly." IIRC, Winston Churchill. I've probably misquoted Sir Winston.

"Suppose you were a congressman. Suppose you were an idiot. But I repeat myself." Mark Twain

"Democracy is when 2 wolves and a lamb vote for what to put on the dinner table; Liberty is when the lamb is equipped to dispute that vote."

Where's the bayonet?" Lewis B. "Chesty" Puller, while examining a new model of flame thrower.


"In Germany they first came for the Communists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Communist. Then they came for the Jews, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Jew. Then they came for the trade unionists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a trade unionist. Then they came for the Catholics, and I didn't speak up because I was Protestant. Then they came for me - and by that time no one was left to speak up."
-Pastor Martin Nimoller



"The tradition of dead generations weighs like a nightmare on the brain of the living."
-Karl Marx


The more people are dependent upon the government, the more controlled they are."
— United States Secretary of State Madeline Albright, 20 Mar 1998



"I think we have more machinery of government than is necessary, too many parasites living on the labor of the industrious."
—Thomas Jefferson Letter to William Ludlow, 1824


"Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it."
— George Bernard Shaw, Maxims for Revolutions, 1903


"What luck for rulers, that men do not think."
—Adolf Hitler


"The watchword of the left in those days [1960's & 1970's] was 'Never trust the government.' Now, of course, the left IS the government, and the new watchword is 'Never mind.'"
—C. D. Tavares, 1997


"Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety."
—Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790), reply of the Pennsylvania Assembly to the governor, November 11, 1755



"...quemadmodum gladius neminem occidit, occidentis telum est."
[...a sword never kills anybody; it's a tool in the killer's hand.]
—(Lucius Annaeus) Seneca "the Younger" (ca. 4 BC-65 AD),
Ad Lucilium Epistulae Morales,
[Letters to Lucilius on Morals,]
Letter 87, c.63-65 AD


"I declare to you that woman must not depend upon the protection of man, but must be taught to protect herself, and there I take my stand."
—Susan B. Anthony (1820-1906), speech in San Franscisco, July 1871

"Americans have the will to resist because you have weapons. If you don't have a gun, freedom of speech has no power."
—Yoshimi Ishikawa, Japanese author, in the Los Angeles Times, October 15, 1992.


You may have to fight when there is no chance of victory, because it is better to perish than to live as slaves."
—Winston Churchill


"Contemplate the mangled bodies of your countrymen, and then say,
'What should be the reward of such sacrifices?' Bid us and our
posterity bow the knee, supplicate the friendship, and plough, and
sow, and reap, to glut the avarice of the men who have let loose on us
the dogs of war to riot in our blood and hunt us from the face of the
earth? If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of
servitude than the animating contest of freedom, go from us in peace.
We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which
feed you. May your chains sit lightly upon you, and may posterity
forget that ye were our countrymen!" --Samuel Adams


"If ye love wealth greater than liberty, the tranquility of servitude greater than the animating contest for freedom, go home from us in peace. We seek not your counsel, nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you. May your chains set lightly upon you; and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen."
—Samuel Adams


"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to stand by and do nothing." --Edmund Burke


"Whenever books are burned, men also in the end are burned." --Heinrich Heine


"Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it with religious conviction." --Blaise Pascal


"A friend is someone who will help you move. A GOOD friend is someone who will help you move a body." --unknown


"You may never know what results come from your action.
But if you do nothing, there will be no result." ~ Gandhi


"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world;
indeed, it's the only thing that ever does." ~ Margaret Mead


The most potent weapon in the hands of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed.
Steve Biko

There will come a time when our silence will be louder than the voices you strangle today.
Albert Spies


Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first. -- Mark Twain


I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones. -- Albert Einstein


There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence. -- Jeremy S. Anderson


The definition of diplomacy is saying 'Nice doggie, nice doggie' until you can find a stick. -- Will Rodgers

The victor will always judge the defeated, and always find him guilty. -- Goering, during the Nuremberg Trials


``The great masses of the people . . . will more easily fall victims to a big lie than to a small one.'' [Adolf Hitler, Mein Kampf [1933]]


``Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other.'' [Ronald Reagan]


"The budget should be balanced, the Treasury should be refilled, public debt should be reduced, the arrogance of officialdom should be tempered and controlled, and the assistance to foreign lands should be curtailed lest Rome become bankrupt."
Cicero, 63 BC

"One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors."
Plato

"You need only reflect that one of the best ways to get yourself a reputation as a dangerous citizen these days is to go about repeating the very phrases which our founding fathers used in the struggle for independence."
Charles Austin Beard, historian


"We have rights, as individuals, to give as much of our own money as we please to charity; but as members of Congress we have no right so to appropriate a dollar of public money."
David Crockett, Congressman 1827-35


"Our schools have been scientifically designed to prevent overeducation from happening. The average American (should be) content with their humble role in life, because they're not tempted to think about any other role."
U.S. Commissioner of Education, William T. Harris, 1889


"Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are inevitably ruined."

"Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death!"
Patrick Henry


"The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government."
Thomas Jefferson

"Those who do not learn from the mistakes of history are doomed to repeat them."
George Santayana


"There are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by the gradual and silent encroachment of those in power, than by violent and sudden usurpation."
James Madison

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


"Germans who wish to use firearms should join the SS or the SA - ordinary citizens don't need guns, as their having guns doesn't serve the State."
Heinrich Himmler


Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
-- Abraham Lincoln


When we are planning for posterity, we ought to remember that virtue is not hereditary.
-- Thomas Paine


"Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter."
-Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.


''Our task of creating a socialist America can only succeed when those who would resist us have been totally disarmed."
Sarah Brady, Chair Handgun Control, Inc.


"I think you should defend to the death their right to march, and then go down and meet them with baseball bats."
Woody Allen, on the KKK


"Laws that forbid the carrying of arms...disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes... Such laws make things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants; they serve rather to encourage than to prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man."
Thomas Jefferson, quoting Cesare Beccaria


"A fear of weapons is a sign of retarded sexual and emotional maturity."
Sigmund Freud, General Introduction to Psychoanlysis (1952)


More formidable is an army of deer, led by a lion, than an army of lions, led by a deer.
Rev. Bob Thieme


"We don't inherit the world from our parents, we borrow it from our children."
Sioux Indians


"If you're standing upright, don't worry if your shadow is crooked."
Chinese proverb


"... to the last I grapple with thee; from hell's heart I stab at thee; for hate's sake I spit my last breath at thee."
Captain Ahab - Moby Dick by Herman Melville


"If you teach someone what to think, you make them a slave to your knowledge -- if you teach someone how to think, you make all knowledge their slave."


"One ship drives east and the other drives west
With the selfsame winds that blow.
`Tis the set of the sails and not the gales
Which tells the way to go."
Ella Wheeler Wilcox - "Winds of Fate"


"Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work."
Thomas Edison


"It is better to die on your feet than live on your knees."
Dolores Isárruri


"If you have made mistakes ... there is always another chance for you ... you may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing we call 'failure' is not the falling down, but the staying down."
Mary Pickford


"Moses dragged us for 40 years through the desert to bring us to the one place in the Middle East where there was no oil."
Golda Meir


"The road to Auschwitz was built by hate but paved by indifference."
Professor Aron Rodrigue


"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit."
Aristotle

"When the first baby laughed for the first time, the laugh broke into a thousand pieces and they all went skipping about, and that was the beginning of fairies."
James Matthew Barrie


"Never fear shadows. They simply mean there's a light shining somewhere nearby."
Ruth Renkel


"It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets."
Voltaire


It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived."
George S. Patton, Jr.


"In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends."
Martin Luther King, Jr.


"Dream as if you'll live forever, live as if you'll die today."
James Dean


"A person will be called to account on Judgement Day for every permissible thing he might have enjoyed but didn't."
Talmud



"A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an
invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write
a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort
the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone,
solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program
a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die
gallantly. Specialization is for insects."
Robert Heinlein


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"In the end they will lay their freedom at our feet and say to us,
'Make us your slaves, but feed us.'" Dostoevsky
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// posted by Len @ 1:01 AM