Self-explanatory. List your favorites. Here's some of mine... <ul>[*]"There is one light of the sun, though it is interrupted by walls, mountains and infinite other things. There is one Intelligent Soul, though it seems to be divided. All things are implicated with one another. The Spirit that bonds us all as One is holy. Everything on Earth, under the heavens, is connected with every other thing. All the different things in the world are coordinated and combined to make up the same universe." -Marcus Aurelius [*]"A belief, however necessary it may be for the preservation of a species, has nothing to do with truth. The falseness of a judgment is not for us necessarily an objection to a judgment. The question is to what extent it is life-promoting, life-preserving, species preserving, perhaps even species cultivating. To recognize untruth as a condition of life--that cetainly means resisting accustomed value feelings in a dangerous way; and a philosophy that risks this would by that token alone place itself beyond good and evil." - Friedrich Nietzsche [*]"Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders. Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations. But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it." - Buddha [*]"Conventional wisdom would have one believe that it is insane to resist this, the mightiest of empires... but what history really shows is that today's empire is tomorrow's ashes, that nothing lasts forever, and that to not resist is to acquiesce in your own oppression. The greatest form of sanity that anyone can exercise is to resist that force that is trying to repress, oppress and fight the human spirit." - Mumia Abu-Jamal [*]Throughout human history, as our species has faced the frightening, terrorizing fact that we do not know who we are, or where we are going in this ocean of chaos, it has been the authorities — the political, the religious, the educational authorities — who attempted to comfort us by giving us order, rules, regulations, informing — forming in our minds — their view of reality. To think for yourself you must question authority and learn how to put yourself in a state of vulnerable open-mindedness, chaotic, confused vulnerability to inform yourself. - Timothy Leary [*]"To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and to endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty; to find the best in others; to leave the world a bit better whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded." - Ralph Waldo Emerson [*]"I speak without reservation from what I know and who I am. I do so with the understanding that all people should have the right to offer their voice to the chorus whether the result is harmony or dissonance, the world song is a colorless dirge without the differences that distinguish us, and it is that difference which should be celebrated not condemned." - Ani Difranco [*]“Music creates order out of chaos: for rhythm imposes unanimity upon the divergent, melody imposes continuity upon the disjointed, and harmony imposes compatibility upon the incongruous” - Yehudi Menuhin [*]"Those who would sacrifice liberty for security deserve neither." - Benjamin Franklin[/list]
<ul> [*]When you're as great as I am, it's hard to be humble. - Muhammad Ali [*]Luckily, I've always thought of myself as a musician more than a guitar player. Since I'm always changing as a person and my tastes are always changing, that is reflected in the ways I approach my instrument. I never feel like I'm running out of ideas, because it is clear to me -- music is infinite. - John Frusciante [*]The man who views the world at 50 the same as he did at 20 has wasted 30 years of his life. - Ali [*]If you even dream of beating me you'd better wake up and apologize - Ali [*]Champions aren't made in gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them: A desire, a dream, a vision. They have to have last-minute stamina, they have to be a little faster, they have to have the skill and the will. But the will must be stronger than the skill. - Ali [*]I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed. - Michael Jordan [/list]
<div class="quote_poster">Quoting Malcolm X:</div><div class="quote_post">Be peaceful, be courteous, obey the law, respect everyone; but if someone puts his hand on you, send him to the cemetery.</div> I'm thinking about getting that as a tattoo somewhere.
<div class="quote_poster">NTC187 Wrote</div><div class="quote_post">I'm thinking about getting that as a tattoo somewhere.</div> Aren't you white? Or as Malcolm X would say, a "blue-eyed devil."
<div class="quote_poster">Voodoo Child Wrote</div><div class="quote_post">Aren't you white? Or as Malcolm X would say, a "blue-eyed devil."</div> So what? The quote isnt limited just to African Americans.
Real peaceful dude, that Malcom X guy is. Honestly though, that'd be one of the most corny tattoo's you could possibly get.
The philosophy that Malcom X had towards the end of his life was one that everyone can learn from. Like most people, he grew and changed his ideas as he went through different experiences. It's a shame it got him killed. But yea, it'd be a lame tattoo.
"It doesn't matter about the color of a woman's skin. They're all pink on the inside." - No idea who first said it Frank Costello: [slaps cockroach] "You know what I like about restaurants?" Billy Costigan: "The f*cking food. I don't know, what?" Frank Costello: "You can learn a lot, watching things eat." [licks cockroach off palm] - The Departed (Jack Nicholson as Costello, Leonardo DiCaprio as Costigan) "Making **** up is an essential job skill. In fact, its an essential life skill."- My father
<div class="quote_poster">Run BJM Wrote</div><div class="quote_post">"It doesn't matter about the color of a woman's skin. They're all pink on the inside." - No idea who first said it</div> LOL, best one in the thread so far.
<div class="quote_poster">NTC187 Wrote</div><div class="quote_post">So what? The quote isnt limited just to African Americans.</div> So what? You'd be getting a tattoo on your white skin paying homage to a guy who would have hated you just because of your white skin.
I just gotta throw this Independence Day quote out there... best moment in a movie ever?! President Thomas Whitmore: Good morning. In less than an hour, aircraft from here will join others from around the world. And you will be launching the largest aerial battle in the history of mankind. "Mankind." That word should have new meaning for all of us today. We can't be consumed by our petty differences anymore. We will be united in our common interests. Perhaps it's fate that today is the Fourth of July, and you will once again be fighting for our freedom... Not from tyranny, oppression, or persecution... but from annihilation. We are fighting for our right to live. To exist. And should we win the day, the Fourth of July will no longer be known as an American holiday, but as the day the world declared in one voice: "We will not go quietly into the night! We will not vanish without a fight!" We're going to live on! We're going to survive! Today we celebrate our Independence Day!
