Sayings, axioms, adages etc that appeal.

[davieG]

"This constant lying is not aimed at making the people believe a lie, but at ensuring that no one believes anything anymore.

A people that can no longer distinguish between truth and lies cannot distinguish between right and wrong.

And such a people, deprived of the power to think and judge, is, without knowing and willing it, completely subjected to the rule

of lies. With such a people, you can do whatever you want."

- Hannah Arendt

(14 October 1906 – 4 December 1975) German historian and philosopher.

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[leicsmac]

"...sin, young man, is when you treat people as things. Including yourself." - Terry Pratchett.

 

There are so many more that man wrote that could be included here, but that one resonates most.

[SecretPro]

15 minutes ago, davieG said:

"This constant lying is not aimed at making the people believe a lie, but at ensuring that no one believes anything anymore.

A people that can no longer distinguish between truth and lies cannot distinguish between right and wrong.

And such a people, deprived of the power to think and judge, is, without knowing and willing it, completely subjected to the rule

of lies. With such a people, you can do whatever you want."

- Hannah Arendt

(14 October 1906 – 4 December 1975) German historian and philosopher.

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She knew Donald Trump and Boris Johnson in a previous life, clearly.

[SecretPro]

Two big ones always come to mind for me

 

The late great father of ecology Edward O Wilson:

 

If all mankind were to disappear, the world would regenerate back to the rich state of equilibrium that existed ten thousand years ago. If insects were to vanish, the environment would collapse into chaos.

E.O. Wilson

 

And the late great Aldo Leopold with my favourite of all time and one that will always resonate hard with me:

 

One of the penalties of an ecological education is that one lives alone in a world of wounds. Much of the damage inflicted on land is quite invisible to laymen. An ecologist must either harden his shell and make believe that the consequences of science are none of his business, or he must be the doctor who sees the marks of death in a community that believes itself well and does not want to be told otherwise.

Aldo Leopold

[Izzy]

"He who goes to bed with itchy bum, wakes up with smelly finger"

 

- Confucius I think..

[leicsmac]

"...you see a dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever lived, lived out their lives. The aggregate of all our joys and sufferings, thousands of confident religions, ideologies and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilizations, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every hopeful child, every mother and father, every 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. The earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that in glory and in triumph they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot. Think of the endless cruelties visited by the inhabitants of one corner of the dot on scarcely distinguishable inhabitants of some other corner of the dot. How frequent their misunderstandings, how eager they are to kill one another, how fervent their hatreds. Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the universe, are challenged by this point of pale light. Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity -- in all this vastness -- there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves. It is up to us. It's been said that astronomy is a humbling, and I might add, a character building experience. To my mind, there is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world. To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly and compassionately with one another and to preserve and cherish that pale blue dot, the only home we've ever known."

 

- Carl Sagan -
 

[Blarmy]

“Purple’s a fruit”.

 

H. J. Simpson. 

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[Royston.]

3 hours ago, Izzy said:

"He who goes to bed with itchy bum, wakes up with smelly finger"

 

- Confucius I think..

no, pretty sure it was this guy

[Dunge]

“Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by incompetence.”

 

By an Aussie:

”It should be said that Queensland truly is God’s own country. Although why he filled it with dickheads remains a mystery.”

[CheeseHead]

1 hour ago, Blarmy said:

“Purple’s a fruit”.

 

H. J. Simpson. 

"You tried your best, and failed miserably. The lesson is.... never try."

 

H. J. Simpson.

[Jon the Hat]

[Trav Le Bleu]

"Kindness is the language that the deaf can hear and the blind can see."

 

Mark Twain

[Stadt]

18 minutes ago, Trav Le Bleu said:

"Kindness is the language that the deaf can hear and the blind can see."

 

Mark Twain

I’m not a quotes person as such but Twain has lots that perfectly capture a lot things that are otherwise difficult to say.

 

Give a man a reputation as an early riser and he can sleep ‘til noon.

[Sampson]

49 minutes ago, CheeseHead said:

"You tried your best, and failed miserably. The lesson is.... never try."

 

H. J. Simpson.

“I've learned that life is one crushing defeat after another until you just wish Flanders was dead”

H. J. Simpson

[ozleicester]

"Good enough is nearly always good enough"

Not sure who said ot... umm ill say... Pele... thatll do

[foxfanazer]

Stop to talk the bullshit 

[Jon the Hat]

Ed Balls

[Trav Le Bleu]

7 hours ago, Stadt said:

I’m not a quotes person as such but Twain has lots that perfectly capture a lot things that are otherwise difficult to say.

 

Give a man a reputation as an early riser and he can sleep ‘til noon.

Twain, Wilde and Churchill are the holy trinity of quotes.

[Crinklyfox]

Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by rulers as useful.

 

Seneca

[Daggers]

Chat shit, get banned

- Mark

[whoareyaaa]

We've 'ad the ice age, the stone age, the bronze and Iron age. Now we're in the pissin' about age.

 

- Karl Pilkington 

[kingcarr21]

My all time favourite 

 

Alcohol, the cause and solution to all of lifes problems.

 

H J Simpson

 

 

[Daggers]

“Spawn and die”

- a salmon

[RoboFox]

“When a Clown moves into a Palace, he doesn't become a King. The Palace instead becomes a Circus.”

- A Turkish proverb.

[HighPeakFox]

There's no fool like an old fool.