Quotes

Quotations for everyday usage. Use wisely.

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life is good

You have no control over the past, it's a cancelled cheque.

You have no control over the future, Because you don't know what's gonna happen.

Your maximum point of power in your life is now! - Beck Hansen on "Golden Feelings"

In this world of shit, baby you are it! - The Eels, Souljacker.

There's more to life than sitting around in the sun in your underwear playing the clarinet. - Woody Allen

zeitgeist

Promis sind Erbrochenes auf der Windschutzscheibe des Lebens. And I am the wiper... - Wiglaf Droste

Gerechtigkeit heißt doch schon lange nicht mehr, von den Reichen zu nehmen und den Armen zu geben. - Joschka Fischer

Architecture students are like virgins with an itch they cannot scratch. - Pavement

Freunde, nur Mut!/ Lächelt und sprecht:/ Die Menschen sind gut,/ bloß die Leute sind schlecht. - Erich Kästner

Das Spektakel ist der Moment, in welchem die Ware zur völligen Beschlagnahme des gesellschaftlichen Lebens gelangt ist. - Guy Debord

Und sie frage ihn, als ich pissen ging, "sag mal ist das easy listening?" - Funny van Dannen on Info 3

Too many cops/ Too many guns/ All trying to do something/ No-one else has done - PJ Harvey on Stories From The City, Stories From The Sea

personal advisory

Don't deny. Just admit! We all have got a Lobdefizit. - Funny van Dannen on "Melody Star"

Don't shit where you eat! - Ween

Little is to be expected of that day, to which we are not awakened by our own newly acquired force and aspirations from within, accompanied by the undulations of celestial music, instead of factory bells. - Henry D. Thoreau in Walden

Wenn man sich Kinder in der Wohnung halten kann, dann geht das auch mit Hunden. - Uta

A 'No' uttered from the deepest conviction is better than a 'Yes' merely uttered to please, or worse, to avoid trouble. - Mahatma Gandhi

Leave the house before you find something worth staying in for. - Banksy

It's always easier to get forgiveness than permission. - Banksy

If you think you are too small to make a difference, try sleeping in a closed room with a mosquito. - African proverb

crude propaganda

Freigebig ist nicht, wer nur gibt, wo ihm kein Mangel droht; freigebig ist, wer Hunger hat und teilt mit dir sein Brot. - F. Rueckert, Erbauliches und Beschauliches

Il est interdit d'interdire - Anonymous graffiti, Paris 1968

Ha! You think it's funny? Turning rebellion into money? - The Clash, White Man In The Hammersmith Palais.

Wer niedergeschlagen wird, der erhebe sich! / Wer verloren ist, kämpfe! / Wer seine Lage erkannt hat, wie soll der aufzuhalten sein? / Denn die Besiegten von heute sind die Sieger von morgen / Und aus Niemals wird: Heute noch! - B. Brecht

San Quentin, may you rot and burn in hell. May your walls fall and may I live to tell. May all the world forget you ever stood. And may all the world regret you did no good." - Johnny Cash "At San Quentin"

Excess ain't rebellion. You're drinking what they're selling. Your self-destruction doesn't hurt them. Your chaos won't convert them. - Cake on the "Motorcade of Generosity"

Art is not a mirror to reflect reality, but a hammer with which to shape it. - B. Brecht

Capital, without labour ceases to exist - labour, without capital, becomes practical creativity, creative practice, humanity. - John Holloway in Change the World Without Taking Power

Der Kapitalismus ist eine komplette Scheiße. - John Holloway

Our dreams will never fit your ballot box. - anonymous

Wer von seinem Tag nicht zwei Drittel für sich hat, ist ein Sklave. - Friedrich Nietzsche

bloody blues

Mister Congressman why can't you understand? - Johnny Cash "At San Quentin"

If my thought dreams could be seen, they'd probably put my head in a guillotine - Bob Dylan

we believe

in the hallelujah chorus of the shopping malls

we say we can't, we know we shan't, of course we shall

Cause we've seen, now we believe - I Am Kloot, "I Believe" on "Gods And Monsters"

random wisdom

Musik allein ist die Weltsprache und braucht nicht übersetzt zu werden - da spricht Seele zu Seele. - Berthold Auerbach

Wer über gewisse Dinge den Verstand nicht verliert, der hat keinen zu verlieren. - Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, Emilia Galotti

In reality architecture is too important to be left to architects. - Giancarlo De Carlo

I often quote myself, it adds spice to my conversation. - George Bernard Shaw

Funktionen in Java sind doch Kinderfasching! - Gerald

If we are to have real peace, we must begin with the children. - Mahatma Gandhi

Pablo Picasso was never called an asshole. - Jonathan Richman

I don't know! I don't know why I did it, I don't know why I enjoyed it, and I don't know why I'll do it again! - Bart S.

When the great lord passes, the wise peasant bows deeply and silently farts. - Ethiopian proverb quoted in Change the World Without Taking Power by John Holloway

What everybody echoes or in silence passes by as true today may turn out to be falsehood tomorrow. - Henry D. Thoreau in Walden

It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and wisest might err. - Mahatma Gandhi