Fun Speeches/Quotes

[Pariah]

"I am sorry they won't let you have your sloop again, for I scorn to do any one a mischief, when it is not to my advantage; damn the sloop, we must sink her, and she might be of use to you. Though you are a sneaking puppy, and so are all those who will submit to be governed by laws which rich men have made for their own security; for the cowardly whelps have not the courage otherwise to defend what they get by knavery; but damn ye altogether: damn them for a pack of crafty rascals, and you, who serve them, for a parcel of hen-hearted numbskulls. They vilify us, the scoundrels do, when there is only this difference, they rob the poor under the cover of law, forsooth, and we plunder the rich under the protection of our own courage. Had you not better make then one of us, than sneak after these villains for employment?"

-Pirate Captain Black Sam Bellamy after capturing a ship and discoursing with the previous captain.

[Tredin]

"Why are you so polite all the time?" "For the same reason you are not. It's the way I was raised."

12 Angry Men Quote.

[Mallam]

The Great Dictator's Speech- Performed by Charlie Chaplin

I’m sorry, but I don’t want to be an emperor. That’s not my business. I don’t want to rule or conquer anyone. I should like to help everyone - if possible - Jew, Gentile - black man - white. We all want to help one another. Human beings are like that. We want to live by each other’s happiness - not by each other’s misery. We don’t want to hate and despise one another. In this world there is room for everyone. And the good earth is rich and can provide for everyone. The way of life can be free and beautiful, but we have lost the way.

Greed has poisoned men’s souls, has barricaded the world with hate, has goose-stepped us into misery and bloodshed. We have developed speed, but we have shut ourselves in. Machinery that gives abundance has left us in want. Our knowledge has made us cynical. Our cleverness, hard and unkind. We think too much and feel too little. More than machinery we need humanity. More than cleverness we need kindness and gentleness. Without these qualities, life will be violent and all will be lost....

The aeroplane and the radio have brought us closer together. The very nature of these inventions cries out for the goodness in men - cries out for universal brotherhood - for the unity of us all. Even now my voice is reaching millions throughout the world - millions of despairing men, women, and little children - victims of a system that makes men torture and imprison innocent people.

To those who can hear me, I say - do not despair. The misery that is now upon us is but the passing of greed - the bitterness of men who fear the way of human progress. The hate of men will pass, and dictators die, and the power they took from the people will return to the people. And so long as men die, liberty will never perish. .....

Soldiers! don’t give yourselves to brutes - men who despise you - enslave you - who regiment your lives - tell you what to do - what to think and what to feel! Who drill you - diet you - treat you like cattle, use you as cannon fodder. Don’t give yourselves to these unnatural men - machine men with machine minds and machine hearts! You are not machines! You are not cattle! You are men! You have the love of humanity in your hearts! You don’t hate! Only the unloved hate - the unloved and the unnatural! Soldiers! Don’t fight for slavery! Fight for liberty!

In the 17th Chapter of St Luke it is written: “the Kingdom of God is within man” - not one man nor a group of men, but in all men! In you! You, the people have the power - the power to create machines. The power to create happiness! You, the people, have the power to make this life free and beautiful, to make this life a wonderful adventure.

Then - in the name of democracy - let us use that power - let us all unite. Let us fight for a new world - a decent world that will give men a chance to work - that will give youth a future and old age a security. By the promise of these things, brutes have risen to power. But they lie! They do not fulfil that promise. They never will!

Dictators free themselves but they enslave the people! Now let us fight to fulfil that promise! Let us fight to free the world - to do away with national barriers - to do away with greed, with hate and intolerance. Let us fight for a world of reason, a world where science and progress will lead to all men’s happiness. Soldiers! in the name of democracy, let us all unite!

[mattwaldram]

One of my favourites:

“All the world will be your enemy, Prince with a Thousand Enemies, and whenever they catch you, they will kill you. But first they must catch you, digger, listener, runner, prince with the swift warning. Be cunning and full of tricks and your people shall never be destroyed.” - Richard Adams, Watership Down.

[Golden Temptress]

"If you are looking for ransom, I can tell you I don't have money. But what I do have are a very particular set of skills, skills I have acquired over a very long career. Skills that make me a nightmare for people like you. "
Bryan Mills/Liam Neeson in Taken (2008)

[Alpharius]

"The lesson is this. The only real crime for those of superlative intellect and great prowess is to allow one's self to become shackled by mediocrity. The crime is to let your grasp be less than your reach. To aim low." - Fabius Bile of the Emperor's Children

[Ishamael]

A few of my favorite quotes.

From Babylon 5;

Ivanova: Who am I? I am Susan Ivanova, Commander. Daughter of Andrei and Sophie Ivanov. I am the right hand of vengeance and the boot that is going to kick your sorry ass all the way back to Earth, sweetheart! I am death incarnate, and the last living thing that you are ever going see. God sent me.

Kosh: The avalanche has already started. It is too late for the pebbles to vote.

Grey Council Member: What is it that makes the humans so special? What is it that draws you to them? They fight, they argue, they are ruled by passions and fears.
Delenn: Yes. And that is their strength. They do not seek conformity. They do not surrender. Out of their differences comes symmetry, their unique capacity to fight against impossible odds. Hurt them and they only come back stronger. The passions we deplore have taken them to their place in the stars and will propel them to a great destiny. Their only weakness is that they do not recognize their own greatness. They forget that they have come to this place through 2 million years of evolution and struggle and blood. That they are better than they think. And nobler than they know. They carry within them the capacity to walk among the stars like giants. They are the future and we have much to learn from them.

G'Kar: There is a greater darkness than the one we fight. It is the darkness of the soul that has lost its way. The war we fight is not against powers and principalities, it is against chaos and despair. Greater than the death of flesh is the death of hope, the death of dreams. Against this peril we can never surrender. The future is all around us, waiting in moments of transition to be born in moments of revelation. No one knows the shape of that future, or where it will take us. We know only that it is always born in pain.


And on a different note:

Mongol General: Hao! Dai ye! We won again! This is good, but what is best in life?
Mongol: The open steppe, fleet horse, falcons at your wrist, and the wind in your hair.
Mongol General: Wrong! Conan! What is best in life?
Conan: Crush your enemies. See them driven before you. Hear the lamentations of their women.
Mongol General: That is good! That is good.

[moonsongtx]

One of my favorite quotes ever is from a movie I actually caught on tv twice last night! It is a favorite movie of mine and yes, it is a chic flick.... one of the few I can actually watch. *LOL*

Dancing's just a conversation between two people. Talk to me. - Justin Matisse "Hope Floats"

[Eos]

"If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.”
― Mark Twain



Kirk: "Very good, Spock. We'll make a human out of you yet."
Spock: "I hope not!"

[noone]

one of my fav from bruce lee

[Genericko]

Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened.

Dr. Seuss

also forgot......."Nobody Puts Baby In A Corner"

The late great Patrick Swayze

[Wil]

"If a believer demands that I, as a nonbeliever, observe his taboos in the
public domain, he is not asking for my respect, but for my submission. And
that is incompatible with a secular democracy." - Flemming Rose, culture
editor of the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten, 2006/2/18, from the Washington
Post discussing the publication of Mohammad cartoons that inflamed Muslims.

"Above all, the game should be designed so the player controls and, to some
degree, creates the game as he plays - I have little patience with games that
play me, forcing me to follow only one possible track or learn one mechanical
skill if I hope to win." -- Orson Scott Card, COMPUTE!, 1983

"Don't be such an insufferable smartass ... when you're wrong." -- Anonymous,
Slashdot, 2006

"It had a very sinister appearance. It had a battery behind it, and wires."
--Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley January 2007 explaining a
Boston bomb scare over light-brite like advertisements for a TV cartoon.
Turner broadcasting settled the matter for $2M.

"If an architectural parameter isn't obviously too large, then it's
probably too small." - Ross Callon

"On the Internet nobody can hear you being subtle." Linus Torvalds
http://readwrite.com/2014/10/16/linux-l ... s-toxic-en
vironment

"Don't blame idiots on the media. They were already idiots."

"I want to know why, if I get drunk and get in a car, I get arrested, but if I
get drunk and get into bed with a man, he gets arrested?" -ChiliPepperShake
9/16/2015 Washington Post Comments
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/mor ... llege-stud
ent-beat-a-sexual-assault-allegation/?tid=hybrid_collaborative_1_na

[Wil]

And who can forget:

"During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the Internet." - Al Gore, 3/9/1999 in a CNN interview with Wolf Blitzer.

[brhanson2]

I dont want to give my life for my country. I want the other poor bastard to give his life for his.

--- General George Patton

[Johnny Warren]

"JOHNNY WARREN!"

-Craig Foster (commentator), as Australia secured their second fifa wc finals berth in a penalty shootout vs Uruguay. JW died shortly before his "dream" was realised.

Also was once regularly pronounced in ex's global chat, for those of u old enough to remember...