Quote Time!

[kinked_a_bit]

May justice prevail sooner rather than later and may it richly reward you according to your merits.

Me

 

[Bn2f]

61?
How???
No. Seriously, how?
I mean this post is a garbled mess where I think you’re advocating against the rich and their need for the poor for labor??? Which is confusing because in an hour you’ll tell us how we need to vote for trump.

But back to the how?
Your line of thinking on this board would indicate that you should’ve been hit crossing the street not looking both ways years ago. Maybe even trying to hold rattlesnakes in church or drinking chlorine. Pick any.
How are you still here?
It is a serious question.

 

[Bn2f]

Must be the guns!

Edit: And knives!

Nope. Not an answer that explains your lacking mental capacity to still exist.

Just a point of clarification: You’re 61 but you’ve never seen America engage in a war as defined by our constitution.

Congress approved its last formal declaration of war during World War II. Since that time it has agreed to resolutions authorizing the use of military force and continues to shape U.S. military policy through appropriations and oversight.

 

[stxjimmy]

The other day some of you were jabbering about guns and I thought of this quote...
"People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf." George Orwell



After reading some of the comments here this morning, I think an amended version might be useful so I propose...
"The rich and powerful sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because partisan stooges stand ready to protect their positions at their own expense. Me.


And looking up the Orwell quote I ran across one by Ronald Reagan, "A people free to choose will always choose peace."

It made me recall something I did a week or two ago.
Out of curiosity, I looked up the US record for warfare from the year I was born until now. In 61 years, there have only been 6 when America was not killing people with military operations somewhere on the planet.

"A people free to choose will always choose peace." + Free country = 10% Peace

As the great Chinese philosopher Sum Ting Wong might say, "It don't add up!"

So... was Reagan wrong... or is America not quite as free as advertised?

From Quote Investigator -

People Sleep Peacefully in Their Beds at Night Only Because Rough Men Stand Ready to Do Violence on Their Behalf​

Posted byquoteresearch November 7, 20115 Commentson People Sleep Peacefully in Their Beds at Night Only Because Rough Men Stand Ready to Do Violence on Their Behalf
George Orwell? Richard Grenier? Rudyard Kipling? Winston Churchill? John Le Carré? Apocryphal?
Dear Quote Investigator: The brilliant writer George Orwell authored two of the most powerful and acclaimed political books of the last century: 1984 and Animal Farm. The saying that interests me is usually attributed to him, and there are two popular versions:

We sleep soundly in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do us harm.
People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf

I think these words are consistent with the sentiments Orwell expressed in essays, but I have read conflicting comments about whether these words are correctly ascribed to him. Would you trace the source of these statements?
Quote Investigator: There is no substantive evidence that George Orwell who died in 1950 made this remark. The earliest known matching statement appeared in a column in the Washington Times newspaper written by the film critic and essayist Richard Grenier in 1993:[ref] 1993 April 6, The Washington Times, Perils of Passive Sex by Richard Grenier, Page F3, Washington, D.C. (NewsBank)[/ref]

As George Orwell pointed out, people sleep peacefully in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.

It is important to note that Grenier did not use quotation marks around the statement of the view that he ascribed to Orwell. QI believes that Grenier was using his own words to present a summary of Orwell’s viewpoint. Later commentators placed the statement between quotation marks and introduced various modifications to the passage.

The full article -

https://quoteinvestigator.com/2011/11/07/rough-men/?amp=1

 

[SgtSpiderMan]

The other day some of you were jabbering about guns and I thought of this quote...
"People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf." George Orwell



After reading some of the comments here this morning, I think an amended version might be useful so I propose...
"The rich and powerful sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because partisan stooges stand ready to protect their positions at their own expense. Me.


And looking up the Orwell quote I ran across one by Ronald Reagan, "A people free to choose will always choose peace."

It made me recall something I did a week or two ago.
Out of curiosity, I looked up the US record for warfare from the year I was born until now. In 61 years, there have only been 6 when America was not killing people with military operations somewhere on the planet.

"A people free to choose will always choose peace." + Free country = 10% Peace

As the great Chinese philosopher Sum Ting Wong might say, "It don't add up!"

So... was Reagan wrong... or is America not quite as free as advertised?

Why would anyone sleep well knowing that people are coming to commit violent acts on them?????

 

[Philthy_Phil]

The other day some of you were jabbering about guns and I thought of this quote...
"People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf." George Orwell



After reading some of the comments here this morning, I think an amended version might be useful so I propose...
"The rich and powerful sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because partisan stooges stand ready to protect their positions at their own expense. Me.


And looking up the Orwell quote I ran across one by Ronald Reagan, "A people free to choose will always choose peace."

It made me recall something I did a week or two ago.
Out of curiosity, I looked up the US record for warfare from the year I was born until now. In 61 years, there have only been 6 when America was not killing people with military operations somewhere on the planet.

"A people free to choose will always choose peace." + Free country = 10% Peace

As the great Chinese philosopher Sum Ting Wong might say, "It don't add up!"

So... was Reagan wrong... or is America not quite as free as advertised?

You "thought" of that because you are an unoriginal trumptard faggot.

 

[stxjimmy]

The consistency and vigor you people display when it comes to focusing on the unimportant while ignoring the important is truly remarkable.

The point of citing a quote usually isn't the person who said it. It's the idea. A citation is offered so one doesn't appear to be taking credit for someone else's idea.

If you say so.
Meanwhile back on planet earth a quote is a quote.

 

[stxjimmy]

Or not.

 

[ll74]

If you say so.
Meanwhile back on planet earth a quote is a quote.

Attributing a quote contributes to credibility of the words. Obviously Orwell is much more well known than say, John Smith from Massachusetts. (I'm sure there's at least one)

 

[PaxNurgle]

Here's the thing, Kinked a Bit is a bit of a hypocrite when he claims to value freedom- but speaks glowingly of Trump winning the white house, installing a dictatorship, and his goal to strip away the freedoms of all Americans. And he thinks freedom should, in any case, not extend to anyone beyond white, heterosexual males. He has said this kind of thing over and over again.

 

[ll74]

Here's the thing, Kinked a Bit is a bit of a hypocrite when he claims to value freedom- but speaks glowingly of Trump winning the white house, installing a dictatorship, and his goal to strip away the freedoms of all Americans. And he thinks freedom should, in any case, not extend to anyone beyond white, heterosexual males. He has said this kind of thing over and over again.

Just a criticism - "here's the thing" and "we all know" seem basically the same thing.

Not a fan of either.

 

[RobDownSouth]

It made me recall something I did a week or two ago.
Out of curiosity, I looked up the US record for warfare from the year I was born until now. In 61 years, there have only been 6 when America was not killing people with military operations somewhere on the planet.

Four of those six years were during the administration of Jimmy Carter.

 

[stxjimmy]

The consistency and vigor you people display when it comes to focusing on the unimportant while ignoring the important is truly remarkable.

The point of citing a quote usually isn't the person who said it. It's the idea. A citation is offered so one doesn't appear to be taking credit for someone else's idea.

You're not alone in posting fake quotes. de santis is at it too, from todays guardian:

Eight months, dozens of staff departures, tens of millions of dollars and one crushing defeat in Iowa later, DeSantis announced he was dropping out in a videoposted on the renamed X that quoted Winston Churchill as saying: “Success is not final, failure is not fatal – it is the courage to continue that counts.” According to the International Churchill Society, the British wartime prime minister never said that.

 

[stxjimmy]

Actually, it’s not a “fake quote.” More sites attribute it to Orwell than anyone else.

Not that reality matters.

Veracity really does matter, and a quote of all things should be accurately attributable.
I’d be interested if you’d like to reveal which work by Orwell you found it in.

 

[stxjimmy]

There should be a post between my last two but KAB appears to have deleted his own post!

 

[IrezumiKiss]

There should be a post between my last two but KAB appears to have deleted his own post!

Not only deleted that post, but shivved several others and re-edited his OP.

https://64.media.tumblr.com/a813bc69f091e948cc44ec8a0ae2cc55/tumblr_inline_p89mn3siIR1ro4fjb_500.gifv

all of these yappy, supposedly know-it-all pontificating schmucks are weaksauce, sackless and bankrupt.

if anyone cares, this was his grand opening before the grand closing:

https://i.imgur.com/h01eQu1.png