For me, a few come to mind:
- “You’re imagining everybody in this story way more attractive than they actually were.”
It was posted somewhere on one of those spicy subreddits under some affair threesome story. And it sort if clicked with me. Like look around, normal people on the street don’t all look like supermodels. And supermodels don’t lurk around in reddit comment sections. It really put things into perspective for me.
- “Life isn’t short, it’s the longest thing you’ll ever do.”
It is a bit uplifting to realize that no matter if you have bad or good period in your life, it is only a short chapter contained in the longest time period possible for you to experience.
There were a few others that I probably can’t remember of the top of my head right now.
(breathe in)
Gusfraaaaaba.
(Breathe out)
“The sun will rise and set regardless of your life”"
Maya Angelou: “Do your best until you know better, then do better”
“There’s no such thing as retard/idiot proof, only retard/idiot resistant.”
"How active you are in middle-age determines how active you will be able to be in old age. And that applies to any given decade of one’s life.
Meanwhile, on Lemmy, we got people whining about sore backs and knees once they turn 30.
Work with elderly. Use it or lose it.
Amount of people who struggle to walk because they got in a wheelchair at some point is fucking high
I’d rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy.
No one can change everything but everyone can change something.
“Some people deserve to be punished.” - Amos Burton (actor Wes Chatham), The Expanse season 2, in reference to an opportunist who had been enriching himself during a humanitarian crisis; comparing him to pimps that force kids and vulnerable people into prostitution.
Full quote
(after beating up an uncooperative person and threatening him at gunpoint, then getting confronted about it)
I didn’t kill him. Not yet. He’s a bully, and where I come from, bullies take desperate young girls like your daughter and force them into prostitution. And when they finally get knocked up, they peddle them to johns who get off on that. After they have the kid, they push them right back out on the streets even before they have a chance to heal. And those kids, they use them, too. Some people deserve to be punished.
The Expanse has so many memorable quotes.
- “You’re not that guy. I am that GUY.”
- Amos - “What is it you’re think you’re doing?” “WHATEVER I GOD DAMN LIKE.”
- Avaserala answering to the council - “You look like shit.” “You look amazing.”
- Avaserala and Amos on Luna - “I’m just gonna take my pet nuke for a walk.”
- Miller on Ceres Station
And Amos was so great. Both the actor and the character. The books are possibly even better
- “You’re not that guy. I am that GUY.”
Despair is typical of those who do not understand the causes of evil, see no way out, and are incapable of struggle.
-Vladimir Lenin
Very applicable today, there’s no better time than the present to read theory and get organized. If anyone wants, I can post a short introductory reading list on Marxism.
Thank you. Been thinking about finding good leftist quotes to as my phone wallpaper. Are there more, shorter quotes?
I’m curious about the intro reading list. I’ve tried the manifesto and listened to some audiobooks by Dessalines. Are there newer articles that are recommended, that summarise/improve the pre-existing content? Especially ones that talk about how the things were/are to be applied.
“Be excellent to each other”.
“Those who never try, never find out”
In a similar line, “the world belongs to the brave”
The standard you walk past is the standard you accept
Happiness is for pussies.
Frankie from The Goon comics.
In my twenties life was a continual slog in a cycle of disappointment and desperation. That gave me something I could “steel myself” with.
be like the tree; let the dead leaves drop.
I give myself a “Dammit, Steve” from Life Aquatic maybe twice a week. I’m a woman, and my name isn’t Steve.
I’ve also got a lot of mileage out of, “everyone knows when you make an assumption, you make an ass out of you and umption.”
Oh nice, I knew “when you assume you make an ass of u and me”
