The rules are simple.

1. Post a quote.
2. Next person attributes the previous quote to whoever originally said it, then posts another quote.

Just like the lyrics game.

First quote:

How can I believe in God when just last week I got my tongue caught in the roller of an electric typewriter?

But the quotes are from famous people or people from AllForums?

Famous people, I guess. If we did quotes from people on allforums, it would be too hard to find out who said them or the person who said the quote originally would always get it.

Woody Allen, you boy freind profile stealer.


"religon is the opiate of the masses"

Karl Marx, you commie :D

" From the time a woman is seven years old till she dies of old age, she is ready for action, and competent. As competent as the candlestick to receive the candle. But man is only briefly competent:...After fifty his performance is of poor quality; the intervals between are wide, and its satisfactions of no great quality to either party; whereas his great-grandmother is as good as new."

Mark Twain, you sex kitten ;)


"To succeed in the world it is not enough to be stupid, you must also be well-mannered."

Originally posted by sputnik
Mark Twain, you sex kitten ;)


"To succeed in the world it is not enough to be stupid, you must also be well-mannered."

I believe Voltaire said that

"God is subtle but he is not malicious."

"God is subtle but he is not malicious."

Albert Einstein

next:

"Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects"

Will Rogers...

"When I told the people of Northern Ireland that I was an atheist, a woman in the audience stood up and said, "Yes, but is it the God of the Catholics or the God of the Protestants in whom you don't believe?"

Quentin Crisp

"A well-known scientist (some say it was Bertrand Russell) once gave a public lecture on astronomy. He described how the Earth orbits around the sun and how the sun, in turn, orbits around the centre of a vast collection of stars called our galaxy.

"At the end of the lecture, a little old lady at the back of the room got up and said: 'What you have told us is rubbish. The world is really a flat plate supported on the back of a giant tortoise.'

"The scientist gave a superior smile before replying, 'What is the tortoise standing on?'

"'You're very clever, young man, very clever,' said the old lady. 'But it's turtles all the way down.'"

A little old lady who liked to read Dr. Suess?

Nope...

Stephen Hawking. There is a flat earth website about that. It's so funny.

"It has been said that man is a rational animal. All my life I have been searching for evidence which could support this."

Originally posted by Blibblob
Stephen Hawking. There is a flat earth website about that. It's so funny.

"It has been said that man is a rational animal. All my life I have been searching for evidence which could support this."

Bertrand Russell

"An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise."

Victor Hugo

"If you want to get together in any exclusive situation and have people love you, fine- but to hang all this desperate sociology on the idea of The Cloud-Guy who has The Big Book, who knows if you've been bad or good- and CARES about any of it- to hang it all on that, folks, is the chimpanzee part of the brain working."

Zappa

This games to easy with the internet. I suggest a new rule (akin to the word game) How about if the next quote has to share a word or idea with the previous quote? This has sort of been happening with the god/religion aspect. I'll continue it...

"Next the statesmen will invent cheap lies, putting the blame upon the nation that is attacked, and every man will be glad of those conscience-soothing falsities, and will diligently study them, and refuse to examine any refutations of them; and thus he will by and by convince himself that the war is just, and will thank God for the better sleep he enjoys after this process of grotesque self-deception."

Mark Twain.



"Oh what a tangled web we weave,
When first we practise to deceive!"

Sir Walter Scott

"All war is deception"

Sun Tzu

"You can take a pile of rocks and use them to build a house, or you can take the same pile and start a war. Tell children not to throw rocks, make rules against picking up rocks, and then make them mad. Keep projecting what not to do and you make the thought in their brains of what can and will be done."

Charles Manson.

"Our way is not soft grass, it's a mountain path with lots of rocks. But it goes upward, forward, toward the sun."

Ruth Westheimer

"The doom of a nation can be averted only by a storm of flowing passion, but only those who are passionate themselves can arouse passion in others."

Adolf Hitler. I typed the quote into google, and the first thing that came up was a white supremacist community. Pleasant.

"Passion makes the world go round. Love just makes it a safer place."

Ice T.

"A nation's culture resides in the hearts and in the soul of its people."

Ghandi

"There is a time,when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at heart, that you can't take part, you can't even passively take part, and you've got to put your bodies upon the gears and upon the wheels, upon the levers, upon all the apparatus, and you've got to make it stop. And you've got to indicate to the people who run it, to the people who own it, that unless you're free, the machine will be prevented from working at all."

Mario Savio

"If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude. Don't complain."

Maya Angelou

"Be the change you want to see in the world."

Ghandi

"Every Social Conflict is the arena for three mutually antagonistic forces: the Establishment, the opposition which seeks to overthrow the existing Order and replace it with one of its own, and the tendency towards increased Social Entropy which all Social Conflict engenders, and which , in this context, may be thought of as the force of Chaos."

Gregor Markowitz.

"The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; it is dearness only that gives everything its value. I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink; but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death."

Thomas Paine

"The mass of men serve the state thus, not as men mainly, but as machines, with their bodies. They are the standing army, and the militia, jailers, constables, posse comitatus, etc. In most cases there is no free exercise whatever of the judgement or of the moral sense; but they put themselves on a level with wood and earth and stones; and wooden men can perhaps be manufactured that will serve the purpose as well. Such command no more respect than men of straw or a lump of dirt. They have the same sort of worth only as horses and dogs. Yet such as these even are commonly esteemed good citizens. Others--as most legislators, politicians, lawyers, ministers, and office-holders--serve the state chiefly with their heads; and, as the rarely make any moral distinctions, they are as likely to serve the devil, without intending it, as God. A very few--as heroes, patriots, martyrs, reformers in the great sense, and men--serve the state with their consciences also, and so necessarily resist it for the most part; and they are commonly treated as enemies by it."

Henry David Thoreau. Also known as the pond guy.

"In order to preserve your self-respect, it is sometimes necessary to lie and cheat."

Originally posted by box19
Henry David Thoreau. Also known as the pond guy.

"In order to preserve your self-respect, it is sometimes necessary to lie and cheat."

Robert Byrne

""I come bearing an olive branch in one hand, and the freedom fighter's gun in the other. Do not let the olive branch fall from my hand."

Arafat.

"I came to America because of the great, great freedom which I heard existed in this country. I made a mistake in selecting America as a land of freedom, a mistake I cannot repair in the balance of my lifetime."

Albert Einstein

"There are none so enslaved as those who falsely believe they are free."

Goethe??

"Truth is hate only to those that hate the truth."

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'Better to die on your feet than to live on your knees'

Bertrand Russell,
"Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so."

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'Better to die on your feet than to live on your knees'
Zapata methinks.

As for my quote: "Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule."

Zapata methinks.
I googled Zapata and still can't find the actual quote. Just a google of the quote itself leads to a bizarre thread or blog that got closed.... Dude...show us the quote....


As for my quote: "Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.
Nietzsche

"Men, their rights, and nothing more; women, their rights, and nothing less."

It isn't Zapata says wikipedia, it's Jose Marti. Though the actual quote is in Spanish so all of the translations of it suck and are wildly different from each other.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emiliano_Zapata