For All The World To Know.

[JonnoStrife]

Voilà! In view, a humble vaudevillian veteran, cast vicariously as both victim and villain by the vicissitudes of Fate. This visage, no mere veneer of vanity, is a vestige of the vox populi, now vacant, vanished. However, this valorous visitation of a by-gone vexation, stands vivified and has vowed to vanquish these venal and virulent vermin van-guarding vice and vouchsafing the violently vicious and voracious violation of volition.~ Hugo Weaving (V for Vendetta)

You must never forget the two most bad-ass V quotes ever.
"Remember, remember the fifth of November,
Gunpowder, treason and plot,
I see no reason,
why gunpowder, treason,
should ever be forgot."
and
Creedy- "All you've got is knives and your fancy Karate. We've got guns!" V-"No what you have are bullets, and the hope that when your guns are empty, I am no longer standing. If I am, you'll all be dead before you've reloaded."

You can't kill an idea.

 

[Thaius]

Not sure it's the one quote everyone should know, but it's a good one:

"Peace is not simply the absence of conflict, it's the presence of justice."

Said by Harrison Ford in Air Force 1. Great movie. Of course the scriptwriter (Andrew W. Marlowe) should be credited, not Ford, but he's Han Freaking Solo: he gets the credit anyway.

 

[Machiavellian007]

"Words must flow out from the heart.
And, when the soul is touched with passion's flame,
We look around and ask - Who burns the same?" - Faust.

It might be because of the last romantic vestiges that linger in my otherwise cold, black heart, but I found that quote stunningly moving when I first stumbled upon it.

Also, this quote moved me, quite literally, to tears:

Spoiler

Oh come on, how could I resist?​

 

[Angryman101]

"The price of getting what you want is getting what once you wanted."
Neil Gaiman (I keep considering getting this one tattooed at some point)

Boy, that would be hilariously ironic.
OP:
"I've often thought there ought to be a manual to hand to little kids, telling them what kind of planet they're on, why they don't fall off it, how much time they've probably got here, how to avoid poison ivy, and so on. I tried to write one once. It was called Welcome to Earth. But I got stuck on explaining why we don't fall off the planet. Gravity is just a word. It doesn't explain anything. If I could get past gravity, I'd tell them how we reproduce, how long we've been here, apparently, and a little bit about evolution. I didn't learn until I was in college about all the other cultures, and I should have learned that in the first grade. A first grader should understand that his or her culture isn't a rational invention; that there are thousands of other cultures and they all work pretty well; that all cultures function on faith rather than truth; that there are lots of alternatives to our own society. Cultural relativity is defensible and attractive. It's also a source of hope. It means we don't have to continue this way if we don't like it.

Hello, babies. Welcome to Earth. It's hot in the summer and cold in the winter. It's round and wet and crowded. At the outside, babies, you've got about a hundred years here. There's only one rule that I know of, babies ? "God damn it, you've got to be kind."

 

[Riobux]

"If you tolerate this, your children will be next" - Republican poster of the Spanish Civil War.

 

[Panzer_God]

We can judge society by how it treats it lowest citizens.

 

[BlindMessiah94]

"Illusions are merely truths we have forgotten are illusions" - Nietzsche.

You mean ``Truths are merely illusions that we have forgotten are illusions'', right?

Oops miffed that one up lol.

 

[brunothepig]

Whoever appeals to the law against his fellow man is either a fool or a coward. Whoever cannot take care of himself without that law is both. For a wounded man shall say to his assailant, "If I Live, I will kill you. If I Die, You are forgiven." Such is the Rule of Honor.-omertà by lamb of god

Nice work! Saw that band, fuck yeah.
Hmmmm.
"How can I be lost, if I've got nowhere to go?" - Unforgiven III by Metallica.
I could probably come up with better quotes, but I just find that so powerful, probably because when i hear it it's accompanied by the epic-ness that is Metallica...

 

[Zorg Machine]

Doesn't matter what the press says, Doesn't matter what the politicians or the mob says. Doesn't matter if the whole country decides that something wrong is something right.

This nation was founded on one principle above all else: the requirement that we stand up for what we believe, no matter the odds or the consequences.

When the mob and the press and the whole world tell you to move, your job is to plant yourself like a tree beside the river of truth and tell the whole world..."No, you move".

-Captain America (this is my actual quote)

 

[Tharwen]

None, because then it would be utterly devalued.

 

[MortyMnemonic]

"No reason to live but we like it that way."
-Bloodhound Gang

 

[Casual Shinji]

"If we fish out all the whales, the sea level will drop."

- A cartoon in today's newspaper.

 

[Phantomess]

Stand before your God, bow before your King and kneel before your man. - Nanny Ogg. This always said a lot to me about how a woman should look at the world. Not in a subserviant way, but just in general. People kneel before they lift things and carry them.

 

[erto101]

All religions have been made by men. - Napoleon

History is a set of lies agreed upon. - Napoleon

Imagination rules the world. - Napoleon

Impossible is a word to be found only in the dictionary of fools. - Napoleon

Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent. - Napoleon

is it too obvious that i think Napoleon is awesome?


I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it. - Voltaire

 

[erto101]

Stand before your God, bow before your King and kneel before your man. - Nanny Ogg. This always said a lot to me about how a woman should look at the world. Not in a subserviant way, but just in general. People kneel before they lift things and carry them.

Terry is awesome ^^

 

[The Blue Mongoose]

"[T]ake the universe and grind it down to the finest powder, and sieve it through the finest sieve, and then show me one atom of justice, one molecule of mercy. And yet, you try to act as if there is some ideal order in the world. As if there is some, some rightness in the universe, by which it may be judged."
~Death, Terry Pratchett's Hogfather.

He goes on to say that humans need these things, imaginary as they may be, to be human. Great book, decent movie.

EDIT: Oh and: "Do you know, that in a universe so full of wonders, they [humans] have managed to invent boredom."
~same thing.

 

[Kurokami]

If there was one quotation, lyric, passage or poem that you would have everyone in the world learn what would it be? My choice would be "There is no easy walk to freedom anywhere, and many of us will have to pass through the valley of the shadow of death again and again before we reach the mountaintop of our desires." -Nelson Mandela

"Tis better to be vile than vile esteemed
When not to be receives reproach of being,
And the just pleasure lost, which is so deemed
Not by our feeling, but by others' seeing.
For why should others' false adulterate eyes
Give salutation to my sportive blood?"

The first line pretty much says it all for me.

 

[Cobbs]

Sometimes... you can cry until there is nothing wet in you. You can scream and curse to where your throat rebels and ruptures. You can pray, all you want, to whatever God you think will listen. And, still, it makes NO difference. It goes on, with no sign as to when it might release you. And you know that, if it ever did relent...

It would not be because it cared.

- Written in blood before everything went black

Woo, johnny reference XD
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?The measure of an individual can be difficult to discern by actions alone.?- Thane Krios