Great Quotes From Great Men... and Women to I guess

Aurelius,

you down with the whole Cointelpro-thing FBI was involved with back then?

Spoiler

 

The best quote

 

People Sleep Peacefully in Their Beds at Night Only Because Rough Men Stand Ready to Do Violence on Their Behalf - George Orwell

When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro - Hunter S. Thompson

I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me. - Hunter S. Thompson

 

Thompson has some amazing ones for sure.

 

Thompson’s narrative journalistic book on the time he spent with the Hell’s Angels is a masterpiece.

Edit: to contribute:

“Anyone who would give up a little liberty to gain a little security will have neither and lose both.” - Ben Franklin

“I prefer liberty with danger than peace with slavery.” - Jean Jacques Rousseau

 

“I find it wholesome to be alone the greater part of the time. To be in company, even with the best, is soon wearisome and dissipating. I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.”
― Henry David Thoreau, Walden

“However mean your life is, meet and live it; do not shun it and call it hard names. It is not so bad as you are. It looks poorest when you are richest. The fault-finder will find faults even in paradise. Love your life, poor as it is. You may perhaps have some pleasant, thrilling, glorious hours, even in a poorhouse. The setting sun is reflected from the windows of the almshouse as brightly as from the rich man’s abode; the snow melts before its doors as early in the spring. Cultivate property like a garden herb, like sage. Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends. Turn the old; return to them. Things do not change; we change. Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts… Superfluous wealth can buy superfluities only. Money is not required to buy one necessary of the soul.”
― Henry David Thoreau, Walden

“Amid a world of noisy, shallow actors it is noble to stand aside and say, 'I will simply be.”
― Henry David Thoreau

"If you want to really hurt you parents, and you don't have the nerve to be gay, the least you can do is go into the arts. I'm not kidding. The arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very human way of making life more bearable. Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow, for heaven's sake. Sing in the shower. Dance to the radio. Tell stories. Write a poem to a friend, even a lousy poem. Do it as well as you possible can. You will get an enormous reward. You will have created something."
— Kurt Vonnegut (A Man Without a Country)

"Where do I get my ideas from? You might as well have asked that of Beethoven. He was goofing around in Germany like everybody else, and all of a sudden this stuff came gushing out of him. It was music. I was goofing around like everybody else in Indiana, and all of a sudden stuff came gushing out. It was disgust with civilization."
— Kurt Vonnegut

I really enjoyed Kurt Vonnegut's books, but then he became an old, bitter, resentful man who thought he had to interfere with politics and I hated that. So I put all his books in a huge cardboard box and took them to the recycling centre. I like to think they were turned into toilet paper.
--- alec

 

“All great movements, every vigorous impulse that a community may feel, become perverted and distorted as time passes ”
― W. S. Churchill

“I went to Kennedy Space Center to become an astronaut, but the scientists were not very supportive. They just said things like “You're not qualified” and “Why are you naked?” and “I CAN'T CATCH HIM HE'S COVERED IN BABY OIL!”.”
― Tanklin D.

 

We saw how their visions ended in Bioschock.

Anyway:



Also:

Walt Witman

 

"War, war never changes..." -- some genius back at Interplay

"I'm addicted to my iPhone and get a game for it every few days" -- Todd Howard

 

Sixteen times the detail! -- Todd Howard

---But seriously...

 

If you like Thoreau, are you also a nature guy? Aren't you from Belgium? Do you have nature, forests etc. there? Actually I know that you do have some nice stuff there and in the Netherlands too.