boldest statement ever made

[jkomorowski09]

Trying to make this thread a little more interesting:

Post some of your most thought provoking / powerful / deep / insightful / compelling / etc. quotes or statements 

Some of the previous and more serious responses are:




If I were the devil (video) - Paul Harvey




I'm not saying I'm going to change the world, but I guarantee I will spark the brain, that will change the world. - Tupac




For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved. - Romans 10:13




Give me liberty, or give me death. - Patrick Henry




Father, Father, why have you forsaken me?




The law is anything I write on a piece of paper. - Saddam Hussein 




A diploma ain't nothing but a piece of paper.




I am become Death, the destroyer of the worlds. - Hindu scripture quoted by J. Robert Oppenheimer (father of the atomic bomb)




The Great Dictator (speech) - Charlie Chaplin




They may take our lives, but not our freedom. -William Wallace (Braveheart) 




I do not feel obligated to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use. - Galileo Galilei




To live like a king you have to work like a peasant. 




I am an optimistic, I am a prisoner of hope. - Dr. Cornel West




We're more popular than Jesus now ... Jesus was all right, but his disciples were thick and ordinary. - John Lennon

 

[delaacruuz]

Yolo

 

[nikfiend]

There are plenty of powerful/bold quotes throughout history, so to put your finger on one single quote is difficult, especially considering context. Cool topic though, made me think of this line he mentioned in his speech

"I am not optimistic, I am a prisoner of hope" Dr. Cornel West

Heard him speak at my school the other day, he elaborates here:
"RS: So you're optimistic about the future?

Cornel West: The categories of optimism and pessimism don't exist for me. I'm a blues man. A blues man is a prisoner of hope, and hope is a qualitatively different category than optimism. Optimism is a secular construct, a calculation of probability. Black folk in America have never been optimistic about the future - what have we had to be optimistic about? But we are people of hope. Hope wrestles with despair, but it doesn't generate optimism. It just generates this energy to be courageous, to bear witness, to see what the end is going to be. No guarantee, unfinished, open-ended. I'm a prisoner of hope. I'm going to die full of hope..."

Dude is brilliant

 

[kayway8]

Bold statement as in....?

 

[jkomorowski09]

Originally Posted by Kayway8

Bold statement as in....?

powerful/influential/deep/compelling/full of meaning
etc.

just a bold statement 

 

[Clyde Frog]

Last night my buddy said Manu Ginobili was top 3 in the NBA in his prime. One of the boldest statements I ever heard... He didn't even mention Duncan.

 

[kayway8]

I agree it's a powerful statement...but the boldest statement ever made?...eh

 

[jkomorowski09]

Originally Posted by Jay02

Last night my buddy said Manu Ginobili was top 3 in the NBA in his prime. One of the boldest statements I ever heard... He didn't even mention Duncan.

 

[yeah]

Originally Posted by NikFiend

"RS: So you're optimistic about the future?

Cornel West: The categories of optimism and pessimism don't exist for me. I'm a blues man. A blues man is a prisoner of hope, and hope is a qualitatively different category than optimism. Optimism is a secular construct, a calculation of probability. Black folk in America have never been optimistic about the future - what have we had to be optimistic about? But we are people of hope. Hope wrestles with despair, but it doesn't generate optimism. It just generates this energy to be courageous, to bear witness, to see what the end is going to be. No guarantee, unfinished, open-ended. I'm a prisoner of hope. I'm going to die full of hope..."

Dude is brilliant

 

[jayhood23]

Boldest statement ever: ***k B*$%#, Get Money

 

[solexsup]

You only love once.

 

[kdawg]

I'm pretty sure that if there was a list of these sorts of statements then Tupac wouldn't be anywhere near it.

 

[ill legal operation]

"The law is anything I write on a piece of paper."

...that's too much power.

 

[tr1ll]

"A diploma aint nothing but a sheet of paper.."
- High school classmate

 

[shoefreakbaby]

I side eyed the freak out of him when I heard that, such cockiness.

 

[vendetta]

"I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds." - J. Robert Oppenheimer "Father of the atomic bomb"

Shortly after the first successful nuclear detonation at Trinity

 

[kramer]

"We're more popular than Jesus now…Jesus was all right, but his disciples were thick and ordinary." john lennon

 

[jordan supreme]

Originally Posted by Jay02

Last night my buddy said Manu Ginobili was top 3 in the NBA in his prime. One of the boldest statements I ever heard... He didn't even mention Duncan.

 

[jordan supreme]

"The may take our lives, but they'll never take our FREEDOM!"

-William Wallace

 

[keif sweat]

I'm pretty sure just about every rapper makes the boldest statements ever

 

[Pathos]

"Now, I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds." - J. Robert Oppenheimer

Derived from the Bhagavad Gita

 

[antonito90]

Originally Posted by JayHood23

Boldest statement ever: ***k B*$%#, Get Money

Couldnt have said better myself

 

[ebozek9]

Originally Posted by Keif Sweat

I'm pretty sure just about every rapper makes the boldest statements ever

This.

 

[waitwut]

what that thang smell like ma

 

[strongmind3]

nothing bold about the statement...but very thought provoking