OT: Good quotes

[Baron Munchausen]

Puke said:
how about:

"morality is the pack-instinct of the human species"

or something like that..

Nietzsche usually used 'herd' rather than 'pack'. But there are nuances even in his condemnations:

Human, All Too Human, #233 -- For the despisers of 'herd humanity'. -- He who regards men as a herd and flees from them as fast as he can will certainly be overtaken by them and gored by their horns.

But, over-all he does despise public morality, that is, rigid notions of 'custom' and 'propriety':

Daybreak #19 -- Morality makes stupid. -- Custom represents the experiences of men of earlier times as to what they supposed useful and harmful -- but the sense for custom (morality) applies, not to these experiences as such, but to the age, the sanctity, the indiscussability of the custom. And so this feeling is a hindrance to the acquisition of new experiences and the correction of customs: that is to say, morality is a hindrance to the creation of new and better customs: it makes stupid.

[Tamerlane]

I always thought this one was appropriate for SEIV:

"I wish to have no connection with any ship that does not sail fast, for I intend to go in harm's way"

John Paul Jones

[Strategia_In_Ultima]

"Einstein would turn over in his grave. Not only does God play dice, but the dice are loaded."
-Taken from the splashscreen upon researching Probability Mechanics in Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri.

"Ommmmmmminous Hummmmmmm....."
-Do I need to explain?

There's load more but I gone and forgot 'em.

[Emperor's Child]

I love these:

"No bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country."

"Veni, Vidi, Vici" (I came, I saw, I conquered)

"Nuts"

[Strategia_In_Ultima]

"Purple alert. This is not a daffodil. Abandon shop!"
-Phil, in the Insanity thread

[Randallw]

That's actually the female Holly from Red Dwarf

[El_Phil]

Ahhh back when Red Dwarf was good.. **sniff** happy memories.

Cat: "You're going to go with one of my plans? Are you nuts? What happens if we all get killed? I'll never hear the last of it."

From that wonderfull half hout of joy "Gunmen of The Apocalypse" which also includes another favourite

Lister: "Maybe it's the moonlight, but I've got to admit you're looking pretty good for a corpse."

[Atrocities]

F*** even the future nothing works!

[Renegade 13]

"Me, me, me"....."Me too" Agent Smith 1 says the first part, to Agent Smith 2 (who says the second part) in the Matrix Reloaded after Agent Smith 1 takes over the body that became Agent Smith 2's. I dunno, I just love that, maybe you have to have seen it. Great movies.

It is like wiping your *** with silk. - The Merovingian in the Matrix Reloaded. That one cracks me up too.

[Strategia_In_Ultima]

Renegade 13 said:Please try to keep the thread clean, without letting it devolve into something...else. Like most threads do after a short time