Random Quotes thingum from thehobbit

Go here and look through random quotes until you find 5 that you think reflect who you are or what you believe. Repost in your journal and tag 5 friends.

Here are mine. They were by far not the only good quotes on the page, but they were the first few that struck my fancy. I could have kept going.
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Be peaceful, be courteous, obey the law, respect everyone; but if someone puts his hand on you, send him to the cemetery.
-Malcolm X (1925 - 1965), Malcolm X Speaks, 1965
Being nice does not mean taking people's shit.

Mistakes are a part of being human. Appreciate your mistakes for what they are: precious life lessons that can only be learned the hard way. Unless it's a fatal mistake, which, at least, others can learn from.
-Al Franken, "Oh, the Things I Know", 2002
And by extension, make the effort to learn other people's mistakes so you don't put yourself in the same hole that other people have gotten themselves into.

A citizen of America will cross the ocean to fight for democracy, but won't cross the street to vote in a national election.
-Bill Vaughan
Aint this the truth. Unless you get two candidates that are polar opposites, and neither of which is right for the job. Then people come out of the woodwork to vote.

The chief lesson I have learned in a long life is that the only way to make a man trustworthy is to trust him; and the surest way to make him untrustworthy is to distrust him and show your distrust.
-Henry L. Stimson (1867 - 1950)
Retelling of the golden rule, in regards to trust.

Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from a religious conviction.
-Blaise Pascal (1623 - 1662)
Nothing grates me more than those who blow things up, massacre people, and cause mass death and destruction in the name of God who is above all and who loves all.

Oops, I picked one too many. But it's a good one, so I'll keep it anyway.
If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have paradise in a few years.
-Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)
Happiness comes from within, not from your surroundings. We don't improve our own individual or collective situations by mashing our feet in the faces of others.
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Okay, I'm lazy, so five of you *pointing finger at you*, preferably some of the more opinionated ones of you, tag yourselves now and do this.