Vicious Quote of the Day (post your own)

[henry quirk]

If the Washington Post didn’t want their reporters to get murdered by Saudi secret police, then maybe they shouldn’t hire reporters who got an I Heart Osama Bin Laden tattoo on their butt? -Larry Correia

[henry quirk]

“Throughout history, poverty is the normal condition of man. Advances which permit this norm to be exceeded — here and there, now and then — are the work of an extremely small minority, frequently despised, often condemned, and almost always opposed by all right-thinking people. Whenever this tiny minority is kept from creating, or (as sometimes happens) is driven out of a society, the people then slip back into abject poverty.” -Robert Heinlein

Translation: progress happens because of the thinkin', innovatin' 'few', not the feelin', static 'many'.

[Griff]

How do you cause people to believe in an imagined order such as Christianity, democracy or capitalism? First, you never admit that the order is imagined. - Yuval Noah Harari

Voltaire said about God that ‘there is no God, but don’t tell that to my servant, lest he murder me at night’. Hammurabi would have said the same about his principle of hierarchy, and Thomas Jefferson about human rights. Homo sapiens has no natural rights, just as spiders, hyenas and chimpanzees have no natural rights. But don’t tell that to our servants, lest they murder us at night. - Yuval Noah Harari

[xoxoxoBruce]

Originally Posted by Griff

How do you cause people to believe in an imagined order such as Christianity, democracy or capitalism? First, you never admit that the order is imagined. - Yuval Noah Harari

Why bother trying to convince people when the powers that be can impose them.

[Clodfobble]

Are these from his newest 21 Lessons... or elsewhere? I'm listening to that one in the car right now.

[Griff]

Originally Posted by Clodfobble

Are these from his newest 21 Lessons... or elsewhere? I'm listening to that one in the car right now.

I’m reading Sapiens right now. They’re from that one.

[henry quirk]

“The man of system...is apt to be very wise in his own conceit; and is often so enamoured with the supposed beauty of his own ideal plan of government, that he cannot suffer the smallest deviation from any part of it. He goes on to establish it completely and in all its parts, without any regard either to the great interests, or to the strong prejudices which may oppose it.

“He seems to imagine that he can arrange the different members of a great society with as much ease as the hand arranges the different pieces upon a chess-board. He does not consider that the pieces upon the chess-board have no other principle of motion besides that which the hand impresses upon them; but that, in the great chess-board of human society, every single piece has a principle of motion of its own, altogether different from that which the legislature might chuse to impress upon it. If those two principles coincide and act in the same direction, the game of human society will go on easily and harmoniously, and is very likely to be happy and successful. If they are opposite or different, the game will go on miserably, and the society must be at all times in the highest degree of disorder.” ― Adam Smith

[DanaC]

"When you were born your mum shat you out to leave her pussy free to fuck the doctor."

Frankie Boyle.

[Undertoad]

ow that one really hurts!

[Gravdigr]

I think the best part of you ran down the crack of your mama's ass, and wound up as a brown stain on the mattress! I think ya been cheated!

~GnySgt. Hartman - Full Metal Jacket

Everything he said was vicious.

[Undertoad]

I'll bet you're the kind of guy that would fuck a person in the ass and not even have the goddamn common courtesy to give him a reach-around!

[DanaC]

Originally Posted by Undertoad

I'll bet you're the kind of guy that would fuck a person in the ass and not even have the goddamn common courtesy to give him a reach-around!

Stone cold classic

[Gravdigr]

I'll be watching you!

[Clodfobble]

Well when you hear the music and you can't sit still
If your brother won't rock then your sister will

--Sid Vicious

[fargon]

You wouldn't notice those quality s in me, unless you possessed them yourself to some small degree.