Quote of the Day - [3]

[solarmystic]

"War is a racket. It always has been. It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious. It is the only one international in scope. It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives. A racket is best described, I believe, as something that is not what it seems to the majority of the people. Only a small 'inside' group knows what it is about. It is conducted for the benefit of the very few, at the expense of the very many. Out of war a few people make huge fortunes."

- retired United States Marine Corps Major General and two time Medal of Honor recipient Smedley D. Butler.

 

[A Guy]

In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and has been widely regarded as a bad move.
~Douglas Adams

A Guy

 

[JaidynM]

It is not titles that honor men, but men that honor titles.
Niccolo Machiavelli

 

[A Guy]

It's not true that life is one damn thing after another; it is one damn thing over and over.
~Edna St. Vincent Millay

A Guy

 

[solarmystic]

A vote is like a rifle; its usefulness depends upon the character of the user.

Theodore Roosevelt

 

[JaidynM]

It is better to be alone than in bad company.
George Washington

 

[A Guy]

Everyone has a purpose in life. Perhaps yours is watching television.
~David Letterman

A Guy

 

[solarmystic]

All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.

Thomas Jefferson

 

[JaidynM]

Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.
Robert Frost

 

[solarmystic]

Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

 

[A Guy]

Truth comes as conqueror only to those who have lost the art of receiving it as friend
~Rabindranath Tagore

A Guy

 

[JaidynM]

It not knowing what to do, it's doing what you know.
Tony Robbins

 

[solarmystic]

All compromise is based on give and take, but there can be no give and take on fundamentals. Any compromise on mere fundamentals is a surrender. For it is all give and no take.

Mahatma Gandhi

 

[A Guy]

Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.
~Edgar Allan Poe

A Guy

 

[JaidynM]

Efficiency is doing things right; effectiveness is doing the right things.
Peter Drucker

 

[ICIT2LOL]

If A equals success, then the formula is: A = X + Y + Z, X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut. - Einstein

 

[solarmystic]

We build but to tear down. Most of our work and resource is squandered. Our onward march is marked by devastation. Everywhere there is an appalling loss of time, effort and life. A cheerless view, but true.

Nikola Tesla

 

[ICIT2LOL]

I am become death, the destroyer of worlds. J Robert Oppenheimer
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[arizonajack]

An armed society is a polite society.

Robert A Heinlein

 

[A Guy]

I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it.
~Terry Pratchett

A Guy