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[ARCHIVED THREAD] - SHTF quote list, contribute! :) (Page 1 of 2)
Posted: 5/26/2006 1:01:40 PM EDT
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“Great men rejoice in adversity, just as brave soldiers triumph in war” -Seneca “Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents, which in prosperous circumstances would have lain dormant.” -Horace “Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.” -Horace “Pale death, with impartial step, knocks at the hut of the poor and the towers of kings.” -Horace “The scars of others should teach us caution.” St. Jerome “Death's brother, Sleep.” -Virgil “A sword is never a killer, it is a tool in the killer's hands” -Seneca and for all you manly men who aren't metro... (since when the zombies get here, we won't be all prim and proper) “Neglect of appearance becomes men.” -Ovid |
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Mongol General: We have won again. That is good! But what is best in life? Mongol Warrior: The open steppe, fleet horse, falcon on your wrist, wind in your hair! Mongol General: Wrong! Conan, what is best in life? Conan: To crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentation of the women! Mongol General: That is good. |
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"A poor plan, violently executed, WILL succeed." This of course is the SHTF concentrated low-order grok form of Patton's famous: "A good plan executed today is better than a waiting for a great plan tomorrow." I also happen to like: "Peace through superior firepower!" "Those who trade their swords for plowshares will plow for those who didn't." "100 missed shots in one second mean nothing compared to 1 hit in a lifetime" |
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"It’s all in the name of honor Something many don’t understand I would choose death before dishonor Because I am a fighting man"-BFG "I’m a soldier of the revolution Electing bullets for ballots is my solution And with this hollow-point round, I’m gonna take you down Tell me-how’s the view from six feet underground?"-BFG "One man CAN change the world.....with enough ammunition"...Thorin "When injustice becomes law...rebellion becomes duty"...Thorin "Death solves all problems - no man, no problem." Joseph Stalin "The Pope? How many divisions has he got?" Joseph Stalin |
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"No plan survives first contact!" "Tracers work both Ways" "Never throw grenades up hill or over hand in a jungle" (the later i learned from personal expierance thankfully it was a smoke grenade not a frag) "Friendly fire isn't" "Incoming fire has the right of way" "If your running short of every thing but ZOMBIES the SHTF!!"-shotgunner45 his" WHAT COULD POSSIBLY GO WRONG?!?!?!" Lokjell and shotgunner 45 |
Wow, I got a +60,000! To me, there's something heavier about the quotes of ancient people... especially when they so readily fit today's world (or the SHTF world). Seneca is my all-time favorite. Some of the stuff he said 2000 years ago is repeated by the guy down the street from ya and he doesn't even know who he's quoting. en.thinkexist.com/quotes/Seneca/ I strongly suggest all 6 pages... also Horace... en.thinkexist.com/quotes/Horace/ (thinkexist frikken rules, ancient or modern) I also get big shivers from awesome movie quotes... many of which I've already seen in this thread! |
No, he meant you spelled "roll" wrong. Quotes: "When patience has begotten false estimates of its motives, when wrongs are pressed because it is believed they will be borne, resistance becomes morality." --Thomas Jefferson to M. deStael, 1807. ME 11:282 "It is unfortunate that the efforts of mankind to recover the freedom of which they have been so long deprived, will be accompanied with violence, with errors, and even with crimes. But while we weep over the means, we must pray for the end." --Thomas Jefferson to Francois D'Ivernois, 1795. ME 9:300 |
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"Invictus" By William Ernest Henley (1849-1903) Out of the night that covers me. Black as the Pit from pole to pole, I thank whatever Gods may be For my unconquerable soul. In the fell clutch of circumstance I have not winced nor cried aloud. Under the bludgeonings of chance My head is bloody, but unbowed. Beyond this place of wrath and tears Looms but the horror of the shade. And yet the menace of the years Finds, and shall find me unafraid. It matters not how strait the gate, How charged with punishments the scroll, I am the master of my fate I am the captain of my soul. |
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I always wondered about the origin of that quote. As an avid Coast-to-Coast listener, there was a guest talking about the Albigensian Crusade. Albigensian Crusade From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The Albigensian Crusade or Cathar Crusade (1209 - 1229) was a 20-year military campaign initiated by the Roman Catholic Church to eliminate the religion practiced by the Cathars of Languedoc, which the Roman Catholic hierarchy considered apostasy. It is historically significant for a number of reasons: the violence inflicted was extreme even by medieval standards; the church offered legally sanctioned dominion over conquered lands to northern French nobles and the King of France, acting as essentially Catholic mercenaries, who then nearly doubled the size of France, acquiring regions which at the time had closer cultural and language ties to Catalonia (see Occitan). Finally, the Albigensian Crusade had a role in the creation and institutionalization of the Medieval Inquisition. In July the crusaders captured the small village of Servian and headed for Béziers, arriving on July 21. They surrounded the town and demanded that the Cathars be handed over; the demand was refused. The town fell the following day when an abortive sortie was pursued back into the town. Although Béziers is believed to have held no more than 500 Cathars, the whole population was slaughtered. According to the Cistercian writer Caesar of Heisterbach, one of the leaders of the Crusader army, the Papal legate Arnaud-Amaury, was asked by a Crusader how they might distinguish the Cathars, their enemies, from other citizens. He answered: Caedite eos! Novit enim Dominus qui sunt eius" — "Kill them, for the Lord knows those who are his own."[1] Contemporary sources give estimates of the number of dead that range between 7,000 and "nearly 20,000"; this highest figure is in Arnaud-Amaury's report to the Pope. The news of the horror at Béziers quickly spread and many settlements were cowed. |
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I've posted this before, but I'll do it again for those who have not read it. IMHO this illegal alien invasion will lead to the SHTF. If this amnesty bill goes through and becomes law, I for one will not consent to it. If the illegals don't have to pay their taxes, why should we ? Remember, the Civil War didn't start at Fort Sumter, but in Congress. Enough ranting. Here is the quote. In an April 22 letter to John Holmes, Thomas Jefferson wrote that the division of the country created by the (Missouri) Compromise line would eventually lead to the destruction of the Union: "...this momentous question, like a fire bell in the night, awakened and filled me with terror. I considered it at once as the knell of the Union. It is hushed, indeed, for the moment. But this is a reprieve only, not a final sentence. A geographical line, coinciding with a marked principle, moral and political, once conceived and held up to the angry passions of men, will never be obliterated; and every new irritation will mark it deeper and deeper." We're mad as hell and not gonna take it any more ! Don't tread on US ! |
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