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Post by Max Moore on Jan 14, 2012 21:06:31 GMT -5
i love Ali! hes a funny dude! and a great boxer.
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Post by travisrobinson on Jan 14, 2012 21:20:43 GMT -5
my all time favorite..." why you no go to worlds" STOP SIGN!!! .......bump! |
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Post by Hungry Hippo on Jan 14, 2012 21:36:21 GMT -5
"Evil prevails when good men fail to act." one of my favs
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Post by mactelle on Jan 14, 2012 22:16:29 GMT -5
my all time favorite..." why you no go to worlds" STOP SIGN!!! .......bump! LOL.......Travis..... My favorite quote will be deleted before you are able to read it.... My second favorite quote is, Every single line from the Movie "The Other Guys". That movie is full of perfection. One of my favorites was the Desk Pop! Me and Devin Mackin spent an Entire day texting each other lines from that movie.. If you have not seen this movie....SEE IT NOW |
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Post by P R O T O T Y P E - A.K on Jan 18, 2012 6:37:38 GMT -5
"Without feelings of respect, what is there to distinguish men from beasts?"
By Confucius
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Post by Michael Wells on Jan 18, 2012 6:43:48 GMT -5
"Without feelings of respect, what is there to distinguish men from beasts?" By Confucius I'd say fur |
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Post by P R O T O T Y P E - A.K on Jan 18, 2012 6:47:40 GMT -5
"Without feelings of respect, what is there to distinguish men from beasts?" By Confucius I'd say fur ;Dhahahahahahaaaaaaaaaa ;D.. i like your sence of humor michael. 2 X lol....alright...fair enough...lesson learned!. |
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Post by Jacob Hale on Jan 19, 2012 0:22:43 GMT -5
Previous civilizations have been overthrown from without by the incursion of barbarian hordes; ours has dreamed up its own dissolution in the minds of own intellectual elite. It has carefully nurtured its own barbarians—all reared on the best Dr. Spock lines, sent to progressive schools and colleges, fitted with contraceptives or fed birth pills at puberty; mixing D.H. Lawrence with their Coca-Cola, and imbibing the headier stuff (Marcuse, Chairman Mao, Malcolm X) in evening libations of hot chocolate. Not Bolshevism, which Stalin liquidated along with all the old Bolsheviks; not Nazism, which perished along with Hitler in his Berlin bunker; not Fascism, which was left hanging upside down, along with Mussolini and his mistress, from a lamp-post—none of these, history will record, was responsible for bringing down the darkness on our civilization, but liberalism. A solvent rather than a precipitate, a sedative rather than a stimulant, a slough rather than a precipice; blurring the edges of truth, the definition of virtue, the shape of beauty; a cracked bell, a mist, a death wish.
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Post by John Wilson on Jan 19, 2012 1:03:23 GMT -5
Hitchens?
That passage is fantastic. Who is it?
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Post by John Wilson on Jan 19, 2012 1:15:00 GMT -5
I can't sleep until I know who wrote that. I've been back to this thread twice hoping you'd have come back to cite the author!
In my mind I hear Hitchens' voice. The vocabulary could be Noonan or Charen, but the style is too much prose for Noonan and too poetic for Charen.
It is sympathetic to Horowitz but too well written.
It could be a Reagan speech in tone, but most of his speeches during his presidency were touched by Noonan. Although it does feel similar to his 1966 speech at the RNC convention.
WHO IS IT?
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Post by John Wilson on Jan 19, 2012 1:21:40 GMT -5
Malcolm Muggeridge! (I googled it)
I'll be reading some of his his stuff now. Thanks, Jacob!
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Post by Jacob Hale on Jan 19, 2012 22:18:09 GMT -5
Thanks John. I actually didn't know who said that but thanks to you, I do now!
Had I known you were looking for the author I would have quickly looked it up. A friend of mine on Facebook posted it. It came from a Bill Bennett piece where he was quoting someone else. It's from an essay written by Muggeridge in 1970 called "The Great Liberal Death wish".
The quote is quite remarkable. Everytime I read it im amazed at how much wisdom is there.
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Post by John Wilson on Jan 20, 2012 7:50:26 GMT -5
Yes, it's a great quote.
Bill Bennett is a fantastic author although not terribly quotable himself. I think that his writing is very academic rather than introspectual, which makes sense given his background.
The reverse is Ayn Rand. Wonderful philosopher but her writing is extremely tedious.
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Post by P R O T O T Y P E - A.K on Jan 22, 2012 9:24:38 GMT -5
"We don’t stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing."
by George Bernard Shaw
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Post by kyledarby on Feb 19, 2012 2:00:43 GMT -5
A wise man once told me "Everybodies got a plan till they get punched in the mouth"
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