What's a quote that has stuck with you for your whole life?

I always loved browsing such posts on reddit, so thought I should make one on lemmy too

Edit: Usually these kind of posts only used to have excerpts from books or ancient proverbs, but now I am seeing a lot more quotes from shows/movies/games are also resonating with people. It’s pretty cool to see.

JoeClu,
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If you wish to keep slaves, you must have all kinds of guards. The cheapest way to have guards is to have the slaves pay taxes to finance their own guards. To fool the slaves, you tell them that they are not slaves and that they have Freedom. You tell them they need Law and Order to protect them against bad slaves. Then you tell them to elect a Government. Give them Freedom to vote and they will vote for their own guards and pay their salary. They will then believe they are Free persons. Then give them money to earn, count, and spend and they will be too busy to notice the slavery they are in.” - Alexander Warbucks

dudebro,

To be fair, freedom is being able to go out in the woods and kill an animal or build a shelter or harvest a plant.

Freedom is not relying on society to help you in anything.

Catsrules,

Sounds like a lot of work to have slaves. I think I will just build me some robots.

JoeClu,
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“No one is actually dead until the ripples they cause in the world die away…” - Terry Pratchet

Apeman42,
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GNU Terry Pratchett 🐢

JoeClu,
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Vincit qui se vincit - He conquers who conquers himself

JoeClu,
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“I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it.” - Mark Twain

Pulptastic,

“you’re born naked and you die naked” -Drew Carry Show

JoeClu,
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“You wouldn’t worry so much about what others think of you if you realized how seldom they do.” - Eleanor Roosevelt

JoeClu,
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“A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything.” - Nietzsche

CurlyWurlies4All, (edited )
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Every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every superstar, every supreme leader, every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there-on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.

— Carl Sagan

cousinofjah,
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“Perfect is the enemy of Good.”

squaresinger,

German quote from an old podcast: Konsequenz heißt auch Holzwege zuende gehen.

Rough translation: Being consequent means also following the wrong path to the end.

It’s used for people or organisations that tend to stick to a decision to the end, even if that decision was obviously flawed. E.g. sticking to extremely stick to a regulation even if it’s outdated/was dumb from the beginning. Corporate password policies are a good example.

tryagain,

Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity.

onlinely,

Hanlon’s razor

dudebro,

Probably one of the most pretentious quotes in existence being perpetuated by pseudo-intellectuals.

tryagain,

✨✨Thanks! ✨✨

DeskP1loti,

Everytime you eat a steak, a hippie’s hacky sack falls in the gutter.

-Patton Oswalt

some_guy,

“Wearing a watch is like being handcuffed to time.”

Fraeco,

People don’t stop playing because they grow old. We grow old because we stop playing.

Therevev,

Idk. Im 40 and hurt myself on a bouncy slide not long ago.

My body defintely isnt in agreement with how young i feel.

dudebro,

Totally agree.

littlegift,
wheelie,

Take your time

dudebro,

It’s the least thing you’ve got.

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