r/quotes

“You can go to live in France, but you cannot become a Frenchman. You can go to live in Germany or Turkey or Japan, but you cannot become a German, a Turk, or a Japanese. But anyone, from any corner of the Earth, can come to live in America and become an American.” - Ronald Reagan

“To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.“ - Theodore Roosevelt

“The liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerated the growth of private power to a point where it becomes stronger than the democratic state itself. That in its essence is fascism: ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or any controlling private power.” - FDR

If you kill a cockroach you are a hero, if you kill a butterfly, you are evil. Morals have aesthetic criteria. ~Friedrich Nietzsche

“There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self.” ― Ernest Hemingway

Today a young man on acid realized that all matter is merely energy condensed to a slow vibration, that we are all one consciousness experiencing itself subjectively, there's no such thing as death, life is only a dream, and we are the imagination of ourselves. Heres Tom with the Weather.-Bill Hicks

"We are like books. Most people only see our cover, the minority read only the introduction, many people believe the critics. Few will know our content." -Émile Zola

“Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.” ― Oscar Wilde

“The insult only works if you accept it.” - Diogenes

“Pornography is to sex what McDonald's is to food, A plasticized, generic version of the real thing” -Gail Dines