http://quoth.nexusvector.net/ Quoth en-us Sat, 13 Apr 2013 06:43:16 -0700 Sat, 13 Apr 2013 06:43:16 -0700 http://quoth.nexusvector.net/quote/3472 Sat, 13 Apr 2013 06:43:16 -0700 battle fighting kind Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.
- Plato

]]> http://quoth.nexusvector.net/quote/3471 Mon, 08 Apr 2013 01:30:26 -0700 gaps love past space Some people feel like they don't deserve love. They walk away quietly into empty spaces, trying to close the gaps of the past.
- Jon Krakauer
Book: Into the Wild

]]> http://quoth.nexusvector.net/quote/3470 Sat, 06 Apr 2013 03:10:54 -0700 contemplate end good What does Plato say is the highest end that man can attain here below? To sit down and contemplate the good.
Book: Oscar Wilde as quoted in “In Victorian days and other papers” By Sir David Oswald Hunter-Blair

]]> http://quoth.nexusvector.net/quote/3469 Sat, 30 Mar 2013 05:40:29 -0700 happiness succeed success target Don't aim at success--the more you aim at it and make it (your final) target, the more you are going to miss it. For true success, like happiness, cannot be pursued; it must ensue, and it only does so as the unintended side effect of one's personal dedication to a cause greater than oneself. Listen to what your conscience commands you to do and carry it out to the best of your knowledge.
- Viktor Frankl
Book: Man’s Search for Meaning

]]> http://quoth.nexusvector.net/quote/3468 Sun, 17 Mar 2013 07:39:07 -0700 avoid terrorist violence A force de nous faire croire qu'on combat des terroristes, on déshumanise nos adversaires et on rend les violences plus faciles au détriment d'une future négociation. C'est tout ce que je voudrais éviter.

Trying to make us believe that we're fighting terrorists, they are dehumanizing our opponents and making violence easier at the expense of future negotiations. That's all I'd want to avoid.
Movie: L’ordre et la morale

]]> http://quoth.nexusvector.net/quote/3467 Sun, 17 Mar 2013 07:33:51 -0700 army orders questions soldier Vous vous posez trop de questions. En acceptant d'être officier vous acceptez les ordres même s'ils sont contre votre morale. Regardez-moi. Je suis Général, j'ai deux étoiles sur les épaules, j'ai 30 ans de carrière, j'ai droit de vie et de mort. Je suis à la merci du 1er politicien qui me dit de sauter, je saute. Comme vous le ferez demain. C'est ça, être un soldat. Êtes-vous sûr de vouloir être un soldat? Philippe, c'est la seule question que vous devez vous poser.

You ask too many questions. By agreeing to be an officer you are agreeing to follow orders, even if they are against your morals. Look at me. I am General, I have two stars on his shoulders, I have 30 years of career, I have the right of life and death. I am at the mercy of the first politician who tells me to jump, and I jump. As you will do, tomorrow. This is what being a soldier means. Are you sure you want to be a soldier? Philippe, that is the only question you need to ask yourself.
Movie: L’ordre et la morale

]]> http://quoth.nexusvector.net/quote/3466 Sun, 17 Mar 2013 07:27:17 -0700 bad earn good money poison Vous avez injecté vos poisons, l'argent, la drogue, l'alcool. Cet argent qui dirige chacun de vos pas, qui différencie les bons des méchants, qui vous enferme dans vos villes dortoirs à ne vivre que pour en gagner plus.

You inject your poisons: money, drugs, alcohol. Money that leads your every step, that differentiates the good from the bad, that locks you into your dormitory-villas, to live only to earn more.
Movie: L’ordre et la morale

]]> http://quoth.nexusvector.net/quote/3465 Sun, 17 Mar 2013 04:08:04 -0700 action mistake motion Never mistake motion for action.
- Ernest Hemingway

]]> http://quoth.nexusvector.net/quote/3464 Thu, 28 Feb 2013 16:44:24 -0800 rules Six Rules:
1. If you like something because you think other people are gonna like it, it's a sure bet no one will.
2. Most doors in the world are closed, so if you find one you want to get into, you damn well better have an interesting knock. And if knock like you drum, you'll be fine.
3. Everything you think is important, isn't. And everything you think is unimportant, is.
4. Don't shit where you eat.
5. Lean into it: the outcome doesn't matter. What matters is that you're there for it. Whatever "it" is, good or bad.
6. Never sleep with someone who has more problems than you do.
Movie: People Like Us

]]> http://quoth.nexusvector.net/quote/3463 Sun, 24 Feb 2013 05:23:22 -0800 conformity enemy Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.
- JFK

]]> http://quoth.nexusvector.net/quote/3462 Sun, 24 Feb 2013 05:10:21 -0800 backwords corruption destruction religion Just look at us. Everything is backwards. Everything is upside-down. Doctors destroy health, lawyers destroy justice, universities destroy knowledge, governments destroy freedom, the major media destroy information, and religion destroys spirituality.
- Michael Ellner

]]> http://quoth.nexusvector.net/quote/3461 Tue, 12 Feb 2013 14:23:14 -0800 bought gone old sould young Whatever is on my mind, I say it as I feel it. I'm truthful to myself. I'm young and I'm old, I've been bought and I've been sold, so many times... I am hard-faced, I am gone. I am just like you.
- Henry Barthes
Movie: Detachment

]]> http://quoth.nexusvector.net/quote/3460 Tue, 12 Feb 2013 14:18:09 -0800 empty feelings hurt That bag, it doesn't have any feelings you can hurt. It's empty. I don't have any feelings you can hurt either. Ok?
Movie: Detachment

]]> http://quoth.nexusvector.net/quote/3459 Tue, 12 Feb 2013 14:12:04 -0800 detached present world And never have I felt so deeply at one and, at the same time, so detached from myself, and so present in the world.

- Albert Camus

]]> http://quoth.nexusvector.net/quote/3458 Tue, 12 Feb 2013 14:08:51 -0800 better persons problems space The fucked up thing is that... we all.. we all have problems, we all have things we're dealing with. Some days we're better than others, some days we're not so great. Some days we have limited space, for others.
Movie: Detachment

]]> http://quoth.nexusvector.net/quote/3457 Tue, 12 Feb 2013 14:01:21 -0800 answers chaos confusion end life pain Listen to me, just listen. We're all the same. We all feel pain, we all have chaos in our lives. Life is very, very confusing, I know. I don't have the answers, but I know, if you ride it out, it will all be ok.
Movie: Detachment

]]> http://quoth.nexusvector.net/quote/3456 Sat, 09 Feb 2013 03:33:55 -0800 eyes mind sight vision The eyes are useless when the mind is blind.
- Unknown

]]> http://quoth.nexusvector.net/quote/3455 Sun, 03 Feb 2013 23:31:58 -0800 afraid optimism terror The reason we all like to think so well of others is that we are all afraid for ourselves. The basis of optimism is sheer terror.
- Oscar Wilde

]]> http://quoth.nexusvector.net/quote/3454 Wed, 23 Jan 2013 08:15:11 -0800 alive buried die emotions Unexpressed emotions will never die. They are buried alive and will come forth later in uglier ways.
- Sigmund Freud

]]> http://quoth.nexusvector.net/quote/3450 Sun, 13 Jan 2013 10:02:09 -0800 back far road turn wrong No matter how far down the wrong road you've gone, TURN BACK.
- Old Proverb

]]> http://quoth.nexusvector.net/quote/3449 Sun, 13 Jan 2013 03:25:02 -0800 choice clear life mind If you correct your mind, the rest of your life will fall into place.
- Lao Tzu

]]> http://quoth.nexusvector.net/quote/3447 Sun, 16 Dec 2012 11:19:09 -0800 failure life try The only real failure in life is the failure to try.
- Sven Goran Eriksson

]]> http://quoth.nexusvector.net/quote/3446 Sun, 16 Dec 2012 11:14:28 -0800 alright end ending Everything will be alright in the end. If it's not alright, it's not yet the end.
- John Lennon

]]> http://quoth.nexusvector.net/quote/3441 Sun, 16 Dec 2012 11:13:46 -0800 spirituality Always remember, child, that to think bad thoughts is really the easiest thing in the world. If you leave your mind to itself it will spiral you down into ever-increasing unhappiness. To think good thoughts, however, requires effort. This is one of the things that discipline--training--is about. So train your mind to dwell on sweet perfumes, the touch of this silk, tender raindrops against the shoji, the curve of this flower arrangement, the tranquility of dawn. Then, at length, you won't have to make such a great effort.
- Kiku's mother in James Clavell's Shogun
Book: Shogun

]]> http://quoth.nexusvector.net/quote/3444 Mon, 12 Nov 2012 07:12:56 -0800 behavior ideals Conduct is creed in action.
- Unknown

]]> http://quoth.nexusvector.net/quote/3443 Mon, 29 Oct 2012 07:28:21 -0700 bible christ truth To be ignorant of Scripture is to be ignorant of Christ.
- St. Jerome

]]> http://quoth.nexusvector.net/quote/3442 Mon, 01 Oct 2012 10:03:56 -0700 cynicism nature society To believe that man's aggressiveness or territoriality is in the nature of the beast is to mistake some men for all men, contemporary society for all possible societies, and, by a remarkable transformation, to justify what is as what needs must be; social repression becomes a response to, rather than a cause of, human violence. Pessimism about man serves to maintain the status quo. It is a luxury for the affluent, a sop to the guilt of the politically inactive, a comfort to those who continue to enjoy the amenities of privilege.
- Leon Eisenberg

]]> http://quoth.nexusvector.net/quote/3440 Sun, 30 Sep 2012 09:53:47 -0700 living selfish selfishness Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.
- Oscar Wilde

]]> http://quoth.nexusvector.net/quote/3439 Fri, 28 Sep 2012 02:45:17 -0700 character man treat You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him.
- James D Miles

]]> http://quoth.nexusvector.net/quote/3438 Tue, 25 Sep 2012 06:16:10 -0700 existence life meaning philosophy suffering The problem, often not discovered until late in life, is that when you look for things in life like love, meaning, motivation, it implies they are sitting behind a tree or under a rock. The most successful people in life recognize, that in life they create their own love, they manufacture their own meaning, they generate their own motivation. For me, I am driven by two main philosophies, know more today about the world than I knew yesterday. And lessen the suffering of others. You'd be surprised how far that gets you.
- Neil DeGrasse Tyson

]]> http://quoth.nexusvector.net/quote/3437 Thu, 20 Sep 2012 09:25:20 -0700 leftism Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy. Its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.
- Winston Churchill

]]> http://quoth.nexusvector.net/quote/3436 Sun, 16 Sep 2012 21:05:06 -0700 america politics President Obama is the greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the American people.
- Clint Eastwood

]]> http://quoth.nexusvector.net/quote/3435 Sun, 16 Sep 2012 20:18:52 -0700 freedom liberty Can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have removed their only firm basis, a conviction in the minds of the people that these liberties are of the gift of God?
- Jefferson

]]> http://quoth.nexusvector.net/quote/3434 Sat, 08 Sep 2012 11:41:36 -0700 leftism politics Back in the thirties we were told we must collectivize the nation because the people were so poor. Now we are told we must collectivize the nation because the people are so rich.
- William F. Buckley Jr.

]]> http://quoth.nexusvector.net/quote/3433 Fri, 07 Sep 2012 11:09:10 -0700 excellence personal_responsibility Great character is defined by our struggle with the worst parts of our nature rather than by not having these parts.
- Dennis Prager

]]> http://quoth.nexusvector.net/quote/3432 Fri, 07 Sep 2012 09:49:29 -0700 politics President Obama is the greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the American people.
- Clint Eastwood
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]]> http://quoth.nexusvector.net/quote/3431 Tue, 28 Aug 2012 10:35:25 -0700 excellence personal_responsibility The person who is waiting for something to turn up might start with their shirt sleeves.
- Garth Henrichs

]]> http://quoth.nexusvector.net/quote/3430 Sun, 19 Aug 2012 04:30:53 -0700 excellence fear inspiration It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself for a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat.
- Theodore Roosevelt
Speech: “Citizenship In A Republic” delivered at the Sorbonne, in Paris, France 23 April 1910

]]> http://quoth.nexusvector.net/quote/3429 Sun, 29 Jul 2012 01:21:20 -0700 assent To read something is not necessarily to understand it. Partly, of course, because when you're young, you always understand less than you think you do. But mainly because, to understand someone, it's not enough to sit there tapping your foot while he talks. You've got to listen, rather than merely waiting for a pause so that you can insert the response you'd already formulated before he even opened his mouth. And when you're a young man who thinks he's got the religious question all figured out, you're in little mood to listen -- especially if you've fallen in love with one side of the question, the side that's new and sexy because it's not what you grew up believing.
- Edward Feser
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]]> http://quoth.nexusvector.net/quote/3427 Mon, 23 Jul 2012 07:00:54 -0700 country hymn nation universal This is my song, O God of all the nations,
a song of peace for lands afar from mind.

This is my home, the country where my heart is;
here are my hopes, my dreams, my hold shrine;

But other hearts in other lands are beating with hopes and dreams as true and high as mine.
- hymn
Song: This is my song

]]> http://quoth.nexusvector.net/quote/3426 Mon, 23 Jul 2012 06:58:19 -0700 politics religion vision When politics loses its vision, religion loses its faith, and culture loses its soul; life becomes confused, cheap, and endangered. Nothing less than a restoration of the shattered covenant will save us. That will require a fundamental transformation of our ways of thinking, feeling, and acting. At the core of prophetic religion is transformation--a change of heart, a revolution of the spirit, a conversion of the soul that isues forth in new personal and social behavior... We are suffering today not just from greed, injustice, and violence, but from a lack of imagination. For lack of a vision, we are perishing. We need new visions and dreams; our future depends upon fresh imagination.
- Jim Wallis
Book: The Soul of Politics: Beyond “Religious Right” and “Secular Left”

]]> http://quoth.nexusvector.net/quote/3425 Thu, 19 Jul 2012 19:39:54 -0700 force imagination vision Yes, we are the cowed, -- we the trustless. It is a mischievous notion that we are come late into nature; that the world was finished a long time ago. As the world was plastic and fluid in the hands of God, so it is ever to so much of his attributes as we bring to it. To ignorance and sin, it is flint. They adapt themselves to it as they may; but in proportion as a man has any thing in him divine, the firmament flows before him and takes his signet and form.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Essay: The American Scholar

]]> http://quoth.nexusvector.net/quote/3424 Fri, 06 Jul 2012 18:05:40 -0700 assent atheism While I have met humble agnostics, who believe human reason insufficient to come to certainty on the question of the existence of divine things, I have never met a humble atheist... Now, honestly, you cannot walk around thinking yourself intellectually superior to Aristotle and Thomas Aquinas and the founders of your republic or kingdom or nation without it being reflected in your demeanor and character.
- John C. Wright
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]]> http://quoth.nexusvector.net/quote/3423 Sat, 30 Jun 2012 16:38:31 -0700 assent liberalism Haters give themselves away by obsessing over the supposed hatefulness of the people they hate. This act of projection provides a ready-made excuse to indulge in the darkest malevolence. A dim brain often accompanies a black soul. Hatred and ignorance are familiar bedfellows.
- Daniel J. Flynn
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]]> http://quoth.nexusvector.net/quote/3422 Tue, 19 Jun 2012 11:15:02 -0700 character success A goal without a plan is just a wish.
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery

]]> http://quoth.nexusvector.net/quote/3421 Fri, 15 Jun 2012 01:21:23 -0700 liberalism politics Every time we object to a thing being done by government, the socialists conclude that we object to it being done at all.
- Frédéric Bastiat

]]> http://quoth.nexusvector.net/quote/3420 Wed, 13 Jun 2012 18:38:30 -0700 great stupid If you are not willing to look stupid, nothing great is ever going to happen to you.
- Dr. Gregory House

]]> http://quoth.nexusvector.net/quote/3419 Wed, 13 Jun 2012 01:13:13 -0700 atheism philosophy scientism To say that only the natural sciences reach truth is to make a philosophical claim about truth, which goes beyond the sciences themselves.
- William E. Carroll
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]]> http://quoth.nexusvector.net/quote/3418 Tue, 05 Jun 2012 09:13:21 -0700 philosophy pluralism religion transcendence The lamps are different, but the Light is the same: it comes from Beyond.
- Rumi

]]> http://quoth.nexusvector.net/quote/3417 Sat, 02 Jun 2012 16:33:08 -0700 forgive strong weak The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.
- Mahatmna Ghandi

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