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Ianonabike

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Good, or at least memorable quotes by bad people. Some may be fictional...

“Faith moves mountains, but only knowledge moves them to the right place.” - Joseph Goebbels. Yes, I've looked at the context, and of course everything he said was in furtherance of atrocities.

“Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same way in any country.” – Hermann Goering

“Do not compare yourself to others. If you do so, you are insulting yourself.” - Hitler. Only memorable because it's widely attributed to him. Whoever first said he said it must have been feeling extra mischievous.

“One death is a tragedy; one million is a statistic.” - Joseph Stalin. Misattributed, as it turns out. It just sounds like something he would have said.

“You know, a long time ago being crazy meant something. Nowadays everybody’s crazy.” - Charles Manson

"To read too many books is harmful." - Mao Zedong. He didn't mean reading was bad, but that bookishness combined with dogmatism was.

"Hidden talent counts for nothing." - Nero. More likely to have been Phaedrus, a contemporary of Nero. But he's not known to have fiddled.

Ezra: "I'm not afraid of you!"
Vader: "Then you will die braver than most."

"If you think this has a happy ending you haven't been paying attention." - Ramsay Bolton
 
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Stevo 666

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Good old Clint...

"Did he fire six shots or only five?" Well to tell you the truth in all this excitement I kinda lost track myself. But being this is a 44 Magnum, the most powerful handgun in the world and would blow your head clean off, you've gotta ask yourself one question: "Do I feel lucky?" Well, do ya, punk?
 
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Ianonabike

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It’s nice to be important. But more important to be nice.
Quote association: "Nice to see you, to see you nice." - Bruce Forsyth

<insert name of politician> thinks moby dick is a sexually transmitted disease.
I was moved to track this down. You're welcome, everybody.


View: https://youtu.be/SF2rMlCnZTs?si=PfgWUc7BNIhrpzAN&t=501

“You know the price of everything and the value of nothing”
In the same spirit, "Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts."

Good old Clint...

"Did he fire six shots or only five?" Well to tell you the truth in all this excitement I kinda lost track myself. But being this is a 44 Magnum, the most powerful handgun in the world and would blow your head clean off, you've gotta ask yourself one question: "Do I feel lucky?" Well, do ya, punk?
One attributed to Clint that I like is "We boil at different degrees." Except that was Ralph Waldo Emerson, Society And Solitude.

"You're so far past fücked you couldn't catch a bus back to fücked."
Censored panel of the Bayeux Tapestry:

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AuroraSaab

Pharaoh
"In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer. And that makes me happy. For it says that no matter how hard the world pushes against me, within me, there's something stronger – something better, pushing right back."

Albert Camus
 
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