Teras Kasi Archive

It is difficult at times to wade through the endless onslaught of bad news or no news, and so to help pass the time I thought something interesting to do would be to provide a place to list quotes that you have seen or heard and thought others might like.

I'll start with one:

You cannot run away from a weakness; you must sometimes fight it out or perish. And if that be so, why not now, and where you stand?
- Robert Louis Stevenson (1850 - 1894)

Fight for your opinions, but do not believe that they contain the whole truth, or the only truth.
- Charless A. Dana (1819 - 1897)

"The greatest tragedy in mankind's entire history may be the hijacking of morality by religion."

-Arthur C. Clarke

And one everyone should hear at some point:

What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890 - 1969)

"Nobody ever won a war by dying for his country.
He won it by making the other poor dumb fool die for his."
- Attributed to General George Patton Jr

"The hardest worker is a lazy fool. He tries to find the easiest path and fails every time."
- Atama

Paraphrased:

The best thing about Democracy is that anyone can be elected President. The worst thing about Democracy is that anyone can be elected President
- Lewis Black

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mafiree wrote:

"the greatest argument agasint democracy is a 15 minute conversation with an actual voter"

"democracy is the worse form of government except all the others"

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Second quote is from Winston Churchill, not sure about the first one but it sounds like another one of his.

And something I enjoyed (pieces of a transcript):



STEWART: No, no, no, you're not too rough on them. You're part of their strategies. You are partisan, what do you call it, hacks.

*snip*

STEWART: But my point is this. If your idea of confronting me is that I don't ask hard-hitting enough news questions, we're in bad shape, fellows.

*snip*

STEWART: It's not honest. What you do is not honest. What you do is partisan hackery. And I will tell you why I know it.

*snip*

STEWART: You know, the interesting thing I have is, you have a responsibility to the public discourse, and you fail miserably.

CARLSON: You need to get a job at a journalism school, I think.

STEWART: You need to go to one.The thing that I want to say is, when you have people on for just knee-jerk, reactionary talk...

CARLSON: Wait. I thought you were going to be funny. Come on. Be funny.

STEWART: No. No. I'm not going to be your monkey.

*snip*

STEWART: I watch your show every day. And it kills me.

CARLSON: I can tell you love it.

STEWART: It's so -- oh, it's so painful to watch.

STEWART: You know, because we need what you do. This is such a great opportunity you have here to actually get politicians off of their marketing and strategy.

CARLSON: Is this really Jon Stewart? What is this, anyway?

STEWART: Yes, it's someone who watches your show and cannot take it anymore.

STEWART: I just can't.

CARLSON: What's it like to have dinner with you? It must be excruciating. Do you like lecture people like this or do you come over to their house and sit and lecture them; they're not doing the right thing, that they're missing their opportunities, evading their responsibilities?

STEWART: If I think they are.

CARLSON: I wouldn't want to eat with you, man. That's horrible.

STEWART: I know. And you won't. But the thing I want to get to...

*snip*

CARLSON: I do think you're more fun on your show. Just my opinion.

CARLSON: OK, up next, Jon Stewart goes one on one with his fans...

STEWART: You know what's interesting, though? You're as big a d*** on your show as you are on any show.





- Excerpts from CNN's Crossfire Episode with Jon Stewart

Message Edited by Ryutek on 10-21-2004 09:55 AM

"God is dead; God died of his pity for man"
-Friedrich Nietzsche, Also Sprach Zarathustra

"It was only long after that I recognized sarcasm as the protest of people who are weak."
-John Knowles, A Separate Peace

"Hate your enemies with a whole heart, and if a man smite you on one cheek, SMASH him on the other! Smite him hip and thigh! For self- preservation is the highest law!
"He who turns the other cheek is a cowardly dog!
"Give him blow for blow, scorn for scorn, doom for doom - with compound interest liberally added thereunto! Eye for eye, tooth for tooth, aye four-fold, a hundred fold! Make yourself a terror to your adversary, and when he goeth his way, he will possess much additional wisdom to ruminate over. Thus shall you make yourself respected in all walks of life, and your spirit, your immortal spirit- shall live, not in an intangible paradise, but in the brains and sinews of those whose respect you have gained."
-Anton Levay, The Satanic Bible