Quotes thread

Oswald Sunday 3 Jul 2011

What is your novel about?

Angocachi Sunday 3 Jul 2011

An irreligious Norman chevalier joins the first crusade, he and his friend find great success in the first years of the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem, he fools around with his Arab serf (who is the retrospective narrator), a counter-inheritance murder of a churchman unravels everything.

President Camacho Wednesday 3 Aug 2011

"The nation does not live for the economy, for economic leaders, or for economic or financial theories; on the contrary, it is finance and the economy, economic leaders and theories, which all owe unqualified service in this struggle for the self-assertion of our nation"

- Adolf Hitler

Oswald Wednesday 10 Aug 2011

" Optimism is cowardice "
Oswald Spengler

Niccolo and Donkey Monday 22 Aug 2011

"Da smo složni i čestiti davno bi imali državu. A bit će rođenje, rodit će se slobodna Hrvatska kad padne Berlinski zid i kad se budu rušila komunistička krvava carstva kao kule od karata. Nema ni jedne države da je nastala bez krvavih gaća. Vjerojatno ćemo se i mi morati pobiti za slobodu sa Srbima, a možda i sa Turcima. Teret rata morat ćemo podnijeti svi podjednako .(...) No kad se oslobodimo srpskog ropstva i stvorimo državu, vidjet ćete kako tek naši kradu. Svak nas je stoljećima krao i potkradao, a najteže će i najgore biti kad nas naši budu krali te prodavali svjetskim jebivjetrima i makro lopovima. Navalit će na nas kao velike ptice grabljivice. Tada će biti najveće i nerješivo pitanje - kako nas tada spasiti od nas samih?!".

Bruno Busic

Oswald Monday 22 Aug 2011

“If you want to love you must serve, if you want freedom you must die.”
G. W. F. Hegel

el greco Wednesday 21 Sep 2011

"In New York, you gotta buy them bitches drinks and sweat em all night. They act like we should be impressed that they're makin out. Bitch, I don't care, that shit ain't new! Then they give you attitude. Fuck New York and all these snotty hipster ass bitches and punk ass hoes."

Niccolo and Donkey Thursday 27 Oct 2011

“I am obliged to make a public declaration that I cannot love my country. … We are Vile."

Reid Buckley on the USA

Beautiful Ganymede Thursday 27 Oct 2011

This is from the eighteenth century Hagakure of Yamamoto Tsunetomo, recording the author's thoughts on the warrior code of samurai Japan:

The Way of the Samurai is found in death. When it comes to either/or, there is only the quick choice of death. It is not particularly difficult. Be determined and advance. To say that dying without reaching one's aim is to die a dog's death is the frivolous way of sophisticates. When pressed with the choice of life or death, it is not necessary to gain one's aim.

We all want to live. And in large part we make our logic according to what we like. But not having attained our aim and continuing to live is cowardice. This is a thin dangerous line. To die without gaming one's aim is a dog's death and fanaticism. But there is no shame in this. This is the substance of the Way of the Samurai. If by setting one's heart right every morning and evening, one is able to live as though his body were already dead, he pains freedom in the Way. His whole life will be without blame, and he will succeed in his calling.

[...]

One should every day think over and make an effort to implant in his mind the saying, "At that time is right now." It is said that it is strange indeed that anyone is able to pass through life by one means or another in negligence. Thus, the Way of the Samurai is, morning after morning, the practice of death, considering whether it will be here or be there, imagining the most sightly way of dying, and putting one's mind firmly in death. Although this may be a most difficult thing, if one will do it, it can be done. There is nothing that one should suppose cannot be done.

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Meditation on inevitable death should be performed daily. Every day when one's body and mind are at peace, one should meditate upon being ripped apart by arrows, rifles, spears and swords, being carried away by surging waves, being thrown into the midst of a great fire, being struck by lightning, being shaken to death by a great earthquake, falling from thousand-foot cliffs, dying of disease or committing seppuku at the death of one's master. And every day without fail one should consider himself as dead.

There is a saying of the elders' that goes, "Step from under the eaves and you're a dead man. Leave the gate and the enemy is waiting." This is not a matter of being careful. It is to consider oneself as dead beforehand.

http://www.rosenoire.org/archives/Hagakure.pdf

Niccolo and Donkey Saturday 7 Jan 2012

" The Net interprets censorship as damage and routes around it."

John Gilmore, 1993

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