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fable wrote:“If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State.”

No, not Carl Rove, but Joseph Goebbels, the first modern master of media control. But the parallels to the contemporary US are both eerie and deadon accurate.

Yeah, at first I thought it was Hitler. He said something similar:

"The great masses of the people... will more easily fall victim to a big lie than to a small one."

Chimaera182 wrote:Yeah, at first I thought it was Hitler. He said something similar:

"The great masses of the people... will more easily fall victim to a big lie than to a small one."

Goebbels and Hitler collaborated on speeches alot, maybe explaining the comparison... Gotta keep the propaganda on the same page, you know.

"There are three kinds of people: those who can count and those who can't."

"attention restaurant customers... testicles. that is all" Peter Griffin

Spam removed, per title of thread. Meanwhile...

"The purpose of getting power is to be able to give it away." -Aneurin Bevan

Simply brilliant.

Who gives away power?

"All who gain power are afraid to lose it." - Palpatine

Chimaera182 wrote:Who gives away power?

Solon? Nelson Mandela? Prince Gautama? George Washington? (Actually, Washington did it twice.) I am sure there are quite a few more, but those are the only ones who come readily to mind on a national or international scale. (It happens as well on a much more intimate level. Hell, I willingly gave up a vote on the board of directors that had oversight of my own position as general manager of a public radio station, because it seemed to me to contradict the integrity of my role. And I'm hardly a saint. ) Each had the opportunity to hold onto or greatly increase their power, and refused, giving it away.

"I have never been able to conceive how any rational being could propose happiness to himself from the exercise of power over others." -Thomas Jefferson

"I don't care a damn for your loyal service when you think I am right; when I really want it most is when you think I am wrong." Gen. John Monash

"A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government."
-Edward Abbey

"The military don't start wars. Politicians start wars." -General William Westmoreland

"Courage is fear holding on a minute longer." -General George S. Patton

And finally, a very silly quote that got me laughing:
"I have passion, passion, my friend and I’m not afraid to cry. Who are you calling strange? I know you’re calling me strange, I know that but why? Who are you to judge? What are your values anyway? I’m extremely right wing, apart from 'in fashion' and I know how to cry. I tell you, I really thought 1984 was going to be the end of it all and you call me strange? Well, up yours man. I only do this because it pays well and I’m deeply insecure and you call me strange? They seem like normal enough motivation to me. Screw this I’m going hang gliding." -DJ Adam First of Wave 103 in Grand Theft Auto: Vice City soundtrack. :laugh:

Maybe the most classic one "Et tu, Brute?" by Julius Caesar

On a food kick, here:

"Rice is great if you are hungry, and want two thousand of something." -Hedberg
"Everything you see I owe to pasta." -Gina Lolabridgida
"You cannot govern a nation with 269 kinds of cheese." -Charles de Gaulle

Speaking of food, there was this Julia Child special I saw... good lord, maybe 2 years ago... where the esteemed chef extraordinairre made a brazen comment about dieting. I really wish I remembered the exact quote, as I had actually not really known who Julia Child was up until that point, but the line immediately grabbed my respect.

If someone knows the quote, please post it; it'd be worth it, really, because it was kind of funny. Something about how Julia Child would rather eat one small bite of a steak than twenty rice paddies, or something to that effect...

my alltime favorite:
"i reject your reality and substitute my own" adam savage
more good ones
"knowing is independent of existing. for example, i didnt know you existed before you came in here and ruined my nap" solembum in the book Eragon
"Courage is not the lack of fear, but rather knowing that there is something more important than your fear" dont know where i heard it, but i did.

"That clump is cancer" --A fortune cookie I got today. (Seriously, that isn't spam, it actually happened)

"When life's got you down, throw in the God-mode and keep kicking butt," Cory Rouse, host of G4tv's Cheat (a show where they talk about cheats in any videogame). :laugh:

"I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do, because I notice it always coincides with their own desires." -Susan B. Anthony

this ones pretty sweet
"A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort." Herm Albright(1876 - 1944)

This one is actually from the old sitcom Cheers.

Sam: Hey, what's happening Norm?
Norm: It's a dog-eat-dog world, Sammy, and I'm wearing Milk-Bone underwear.

...Appeals to my cynical side

Goodness, is this page 23?..

"Brevity is the talent's sister". I don't remember who said that, maybe it is folklore.