Favourite Soundbites of the 20th Century

[Ben Kenobi]

And one more.

January 8, 1918

We have spoken now, surely, in terms too concrete to admit of any further doubt or question. An evident principle runs through the whole program I have outlined. It is the principle of justice to all peoples and nationalities, and their right to live on equal terms of liberty and safety with one another, whether they be strong or weak.

Unless this principle be made its foundation no part of the structure of international justice can stand. The people of the United States could act upon no other principle; and to the vindication of this principle they are ready to devote their lives, their honor, and everything they possess. The moral climax of this the culminating and final war for human liberty has come, and they are ready to put their own strength, their own highest purpose, their own integrity and devotion to the test.

[alva]

Ben, who's that old men in your avatar smoking a bong? He looks like a very cool dude.

[Richelieu]

"Why don't we do it in the road?"

The Beatles
The White album, 1968

[molly bloom]

" The so-called religious organizations which now lead the war against the teaching of evolution are nothing more, at bottom, than conspiracies of the inferior man against his betters. "

H. L. Mencken: "Homo Neanderthalensis" dated 29th June 1925

(reporting on the Scopes Monkey Trial) in 'The Baltimore Evening Sun'




" I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is: I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat. "

Rebecca West 1913

[JohnT]

Some of you have an odd idea what a sound-bite is... they're short, for starters.

"U R A GAY ****"

[Spiffor]

OMFG PWND!!!1!1!!

Eventis, 2004

[alva]

[St Leo]

Originally posted by molly bloom
1988, Margaret Hilda Thatcher:

" And you know, there's no such thing as society. There are individual men and women, there are families. "

Huh? By what metric do families exist if society doesn't?

Family is just as much a fiction as society, except that family can be far more harmful to the individual than society.

[chequita guevara]

I am a jelly donut - JFK

We shall now proceed to construct the socialist order. - Lenin

[JohnT]

Family is just as much a fiction as society, except that family can be far more harmful to the individual than society.

They both can kill you. How is one "more harmful" than the other?

[lord of the mark]

a bit long, but

"I decline to accept the end of man. It is easy enough to say that man is immortal simply because he will endure: that when the last ding-dong of doom has clanged and faded from the last worthless rock hanging tideless in the last red and dying evening, that even then there will still be one more sound: that of his puny inexhaustible voice, still talking. I refuse to accept this. I believe that man will not merely endure: he will prevail. He is immortal, not because he alone among creatures has an inexhaustible voice, but because he has a soul, a spirit capable of compassion and sacrifice and endurance.

William Faulkner"

[Sava]

Originally posted by JohnT
Some of you have an odd idea what a sound-bite is... they're short, for starters.

"U R A GAY ****"

and some people obviously don't know what the 20th Century is either...

[JohnT]

HARDMAN is immortal!

(Anyway, wasn't he around in 2000?)