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Blister desired death so I'll be taking over. Proverbs 12:1 "Whoever loves discipline loves knowledge, but he who hates reproof is STUPID."

Cool! New thread!

"I have a dream."

I feel like everyone knows this quote, but in a quote thread you need it.

" 'One day, you′ll leave this world behind
So live a life you will remember' "

   - The Nights, by The Wellermen

I'm reading Crime and Punishment right now and came across this little speech:

"You never reach any truth without making fourteen mistakes and very likely a hundred and fourteen. And a fine thing, too, in its way; but we can't even make mistakes on our own account!

"Talk nonsense, but talk your own nonsense, and I'll kiss you for it. To go wrong in one's own way is better than to go right in someone else's. In the first case you are a man, in the second you're no better than a bird.

"And what are we doing now? In science, development, thought, invention, ideals, aims, liberalism, judgment, experience and everything, everything, everything, we are still in the preparatory class at school. We prefer to live on other people's ideas, it's what we are used to!"

*Note: "liberalism" had a very different meaning in 1860s Russia than it does in the US today, lol

*Overly long pause*

"Never, ever, ever, give up."

*walks away*

-Winston Churchill

@RKrallonor has a quote of his he really likes too!

A quote from Winston Churchill? I think I saw the name mentioned somewhere before.

EDIT: Fun fact, I learned both of my quotes from school. It's not totally bombing my education.

Here's my "favorite" quote by Winston Churchill: "I hate Indians... They are a beastly people with a beastly religion."

Great historical figures often have both wonderful and terrible aspects within them, inextricably linked, and when trying to determine their legacy, it is hard to reconcile the incredible things Churchill did with his deplorable viewpoints.

I'm sorry, I don't think I understand.

He hated the people of India and viewed them as subhuman. Pretty racist guy.

He's considered a controversial figure these days. He was undeniably pivotal in leading the UK during WWII but also yeah, did a lot of harm in India and didn't seem to regret it. (India was under British rule at the time.)

Most historical figures are complicated that way though, humans are complex. Even Gandhi was known to be an asshole at times. (You probably don't know who Gandhi is. Relates to India though and it's a little like not knowing who Martin Luther King Jr is, so look him up: https://www.britannica.com/)

Even MLK was a huge womanizer. This is definitely known.

There's been some other shit that's come out about him though, but it's one of those things where you sort of have to make your own judgment call that he was just fucking around on his wife all the time or he was approaching freak level with the sex shit.

Nowhere near Diddy level of course, but there's a bit going on that he knew about some rape shit that his fellows were involved with and not only did he not try to stop it, he was egging them on.

Is it true or is it just the FBI making up shit? Well again that's what you gotta decide, along with if something like this cancels out all the other stuff he did.

Never heard anything about rape, but I think it's pretty well known by now he was screwing around.

Of course that's mostly known because the FBI was spying on him lol. My own hot take head canon at one point actually was that he might have arranged his own assassination when he realized they were about to come out with all his dirty laundry and undermine the movement, knowing a lot as he did about how public opinion worked. (Yes I know the prevailing conspiracy theory is that the government did him in, but why would they make a martyr when they had all this other info that was even better?)

Basically the rape thing was another FBI spy job. Here's a bit of it.

Guess more might be mentioned of it in a couple years.

They should've released that ten years ago if they wanted everyone to believe it, AI is too good now and the FBI right now is the most scuffed it's ever been.

"That's one small step for a man, a giant leap for mankind." -Neil Armstrong

that's my quote for today. I want to do one a day, I wonder when I'll run out...

“All through my life I've had this strange unaccountable feeling that something was going on in the world, something big, even sinister, and no one would tell me what it was."
"No," said the old man, "that's just perfectly normal paranoia. Everyone in the Universe has that.

   - Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

     Why are people taking so many quotes from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy? I know some parts are kinda good, but I'd think we'd get some more variety. Not blaming anyone of anything, don't take it the wrong way.