Best Religious/Historical Quotes?

[Genivaria]

" Lead, follow, or get out of the way "

-- Thomas Paine

I'll do you one better.

He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty, he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself.
Thomas Paine

[Aethelstania]

"Mr Ghandi what do you think of Western civilization ? ..."

"I think It would be a good idea" - Ghandi

"Black history is American history" - Morgan Freeman

"I'd rather be the child of Thatcher than a son of Brown" - Daveyy Boyy !!!

[West Failure]

" Lead, follow, or get out of the way "

-- Thomas Paine

Mitt Romney mangling that quote was irritating seeing as the Republicans have spent Obama's presidency getting in the way as much as possible.

[Bales Rant]

"He who learns must suffer
And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget
Falls drop by drop upon the heart,
And in our own despite, against our will,
Comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God."- Aeschylus

"In his failure, the believer finds his triumph."- Kierkegaard

"The minute I heard my first love story,
I started looking for you, not knowing
how blind that was.
Lovers don't finally meet somewhere.
They're in each other all along." - Rumi

[Coccygia]

"Act like a dumbsh*t and they'll treat you as an equal."
-J. R. "Bob" Dobbs

[Naughtania]

"If Cleopatra's nose had been shorter, the whole face of the Earth would have been different."
Pascal

"Sed fugit interea fugit irreparabile tempus, singula dum capti circumvectamur amore / But meanwhile it flees: time flees irretrievably, while we wander around, prisoners of our love of detail."
Virgil

"Quis legem dat amantibus? Maior lex amor est sibi. / Who can give a law to lovers? Love is a greater law unto itself."
Boethius

[Continentalia]

"The trouble with quotes on the internet is that it is difficult to determine their veracity."
-- Abraham Lincoln

Wow, what a wise man

[Saurisisia]

"I have been up to see the Congress and they do not seem to be able to do anything except to eat peanuts and chew tobacco, while my army is starving."
~ Robert E. Lee

"Duty is the most sublime word in our language. Do your duty in all things. You cannot do more. You should never wish to do less."
~ Robert E. Lee

"I like whiskey. I always did, and that is why I never drink it."
~ Robert E. Lee

"It is good that war is so horrible, or we might grow to like it."
~ Robert E. Lee

[Demen 2]

"Who am I? I'm nobody!"

-Charles Manson

"You are going to use this courtroom to kill me? I am going to fight for my life one way or another. You should let me do it with words. "

-Charles Manson

"Christianity will go. It will vanish and shrink. I needn't argue with that; I'm right and I will be proved right. We're more popular than Jesus now; I don't know which will go first - rock and roll or Christianity. "

-John Lennon

"Ah, women. They make the highs higher and the lows more frequent. "

-Friedrich Nietzsche

"He who rejects change is the architect of decay. The only human institution which rejects progress is the cemetery. "

"I'm an optimist, but an optimist who carries a raincoat. "

-Harold wilson

[Flornia]

Draft beer, not people
- Unknown

We're paratroopers, Lieutenant. We're supposed to be surrounded.
- Richard Winters

Nuts!
- Gen. McAuliffe

[Conoga]

Ezekiel 23:20 "There she lusted after her lovers, whose genitals were like those of donkeys and whose emission was like that of horses.
So you longed for the lewdness of your youth, when in Egypt your bosom was caressed and your young breasts fondled."

[Foamy XIII]

"And may your sins find you out!"
Numbers, 32:23

[Tlaceceyaya]

Here are some gems from the book people use as a moral standard:

Where are the men which came in to thee this night? Bring them out unto us, that we may know them' (Genesis 19: 5)

I pray you, brethren, do not so wickedly. Behold now, I have two daughters which have not known man; let me, I pray you, bring them out unto you, and do ye to them as is good in your eyes: only unto these men do nothing; for therefore came they under the shadow of my roof (Genesis 19: 7-8).

[Saurisisia]

"A general is just as good or just as bad as the troops under his command make him."
~ Douglas MacArthur

"And like the old soldier in that ballad, I now close my military career and just fade away, an old soldier who tried to do his duty as God gave him the sight to see that duty."
~ Douglas MacArthur

"Americans never quit."
~ Douglas MacArthur

"Duty, Honor, Country. Those three hallowed words reverently dictate what you ought to be, what you can be, what you will be."
~ Douglas MacArthur

[Saurisisia]

"Only the dead have seen the end of war."
~ Plato

[Trotskylvania]

"Only the dead have seen the end of war."
~ Plato

He never actually said/wrote that. George Santayana, however, did.

[Oterro]

"Mr Ghandi what do you think of Western civilization ? ..."

"I think It would be a good idea" - Ghandi

Isn't it ''I look forward to it''?

"The children now love luxury. They have bad manners, contempt for authority, they show disrespect to their elders, they no longer rise when elders enter the room. They contradict their parents, chatter before company, gobble up dainties at the table, cross their legs, and are tyrants over their teachers." -Socrates.

[Farnhamia]

"A general is just as good or just as bad as the troops under his command make him."
~ Douglas MacArthur

"And like the old soldier in that ballad, I now close my military career and just fade away, an old soldier who tried to do his duty as God gave him the sight to see that duty."
~ Douglas MacArthur

"Americans never quit."
~ Douglas MacArthur

"Duty, Honor, Country. Those three hallowed words reverently dictate what you ought to be, what you can be, what you will be."
~ Douglas MacArthur

"I just can't understand how such a damn fool could have gotten to be a general." ~ Dwight Eisenhower on Douglas MacArthur

[Samuraikoku]

"If one were to say in a word what the condition of being a samurai is, its basis lies first in seriously devoting one's body and soul to his master."

Tsunetomo Yamamoto.

[The Stalinist Soviets]

I trust no one, not even myself.
- Joseph V. Stalin


Life without friends is boring, but life without enemies is even worst.
- Che ''El Che" Guevara

[NewLakotah]

One does not sell the land people walk on." ...
Crazy Horse, Sept. 23, 1875

A pint of sweat, saves a gallon of blood.
George S. Patton

It is well that war is so terrible. We should grow too fond of it.
Robert E. Lee

[Northwest Slobovia]

"Whoever said the pen is mightier than the sword has never been introduced to automatic weapons." MacArthur

MacArthur had never been introduced to the Internet.

And while not a religious quote, this one of Ike's has a powerful religious image:

Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. This is not a way of life at all in any true sense. Under the clouds of war, it is humanity hanging on a cross of iron.

[Greater Tezdrian]

You will continue to pay for your fathers' sins, O Roman, although you yourself are guiltless, until you have restored the temples and crumbling shrines of the gods and their statues, filthy with black smoke.
-Horace, Odes 3.6.1-20, 33-43

[Faith Hope Charity]

See Sig.

[Soufrika]

Jesus began to weep.
— John 11:35, New Revised Standard Version

If I speak in the tongues of mortals and of angels, but do not have love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing. If I give away all my possessions, and if I hand over my body so that I may boast, but do not have love, I gain nothing.
Love is patient; love is kind; love is not envious or boastful or arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice in wrongdoing, but rejoices in the truth. It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
Love never ends. But as for prophecies, they will come to an end; as for tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will come to an end. For we know only in part, and we prophesy only in part; but when the complete comes, the partial will come to an end. When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child; when I became an adult, I put an end to childish ways. For now we see in a mirror, dimly, but then we will see face to face. Now I know only in part; then I will know fully, even as I have been fully known. And now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; and the greatest of these is love.
— 1 Corinthians 13, New Revised Standard Version

To cease from evil, to do good, and to purify the mind yourself: this is the teaching of all the Buddhas.
— Dhammapada 14:183

I am a democrat because I believe that no man or group of men is good enough to be trusted with uncontrolled power over others. And the higher the pretensions of such power, the more dangerous I think it both to rulers and to the subjects. Hence Theocracy is the worst of all governments. If we must have a tyrant, a robber baron is far better than an Inquisitor. The baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity at some point may be sated; and since he dimly knows he is doing wrong he may possibly repent. But the Inquisitor who mistakes his own cruelty and lust of power and fear for the voice of Heaven will torment us infinitely more because he torments us with the approval of his own conscience and his better impulses appear to him as temptations.
And since Theocracy is the worst, the nearer any government approaches to Theocracy the worse it will be. A metaphysic held by the rulers with the force of a religion, is a bad sign. It forbids them, like the inquisitor, to admit any grain of truth or good in their opponents, it abrogates the ordinary rules of morality, and it gives a seemingly high, super-personal sanction to all the very ordinary human passions by which, like other men, the rulers will frequently be actuated. In a word, it forbids wholesome doubt. A political programme can never in reality be more than probably right. We never know all the facts about the present and we can only guess the future. To attach to a party programme—whose highest claim is to reasonable prudence—the sort of assent which we should reserve for demonstrable theorems, is a kind of intoxication.
— C.S. Lewis

I know nothing of philosophical philanthropy. But I know what I have seen, and what I have looked in the face in this world here, where I find myself. And I tell you this, my friend, that there are people (men and women both, unfortunately) who have no good in them—none. That there are people whom it is necessary to detest without compromise. That there are people who must be dealt with as enemies of the human race. That there are people who have no human heart, and who must be crushed like savage beasts and cleared out of the way.
— Charles Dickens

Without music, life would be a mistake.
— Friedrich Nietzsche

From this observe what raging and furious people we have been these many years, in that we desired to force others to believe; the Turks with the sword, heretics with fire, the Jews with death, and thus outroot the tares by our own power, as if we were the ones who could reign over hearts and spirits, and make them pious and right, which God's Word alone must do. But by murder we separate the people from the Word, so that it cannot possibly work upon them and we bring thus, with one stroke a double murder upon ourselves, as far as it lies in our power, namely, in that we murder the body for time and the soul for eternity, and afterwards say we did God a service by our actions, and wish to merit something special in Heaven.
— Martin Luther