Wednesday, February 12, 2014

2518 - Quotes

I found a post that was asking for input about chilling quotes. This is what some people came up with....


"The further a society drifts from the truth, the more it will hate those that speak it." - George Orwell

“Anything can happen in life, especially nothing.” - Michel Houellebecq

"Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime. Ask the infantry, and ask the dead." - Ernest Hemingway

"If you are lonely when you're alone, you are in bad company." - Jean-Paul Sartre

"The older I get, the more I realize that I can always make more money, but I can't make more time." - Uncle Phil

"As our circle of knowledge expands, so does the circumference of darkness surrounding it." - Albert Einstein

"One should forgive one's enemies, but not before they are hanged." - Heinrich Heine

"That was only a prelude; wherever they burn books, they will also burn people at the end." -  Heinrich Heine

“Everything in the world is about sex except sex. Sex is about power.” - Oscar Wilde

"Three can keep a secret, if two of them are dead."  - Benjamin Franklin

"If there is a god, he will have to beg for my forgiveness." - Carved on a cell wall in a concentration camp

"In reality, Hope is the worst of all evils, for it prolongs man's torments." - Nietzsche

"The mind can be a disastrous place to dwell when one has nowhere else to go." - Unknown

"We, the Unwilling, led by the Unqualified to kill the Unfortunate, die for the Ungrateful. " - Zippo lighter, Vietnam


5 comments:

Bilbo said...

Uncle Phil's a smart guy.

Amanda said...

The one from the concentration camp was the saddest...

Margaret (Peggy or Peg too) said...

Boy I like these!
Thx

Meredith said...

They were incredibly sad.

eViL pOp TaRt said...

I like Uncle Phil's outlook.