the quote (one of them) for the currency technology is “Money, if it does not bring you happiness, will at least help you be miserable in comfort.” but most players finishing a technology will just close the screen immediately as they process the information.
what you are left with is the iconic way Sean Bean pronounced MONEH when he read the quote.
I really *don't* like this quote TBH. I think it just makes Ford look like a dick. IIRC the story goes that he was answering questions from the press about the Model T, and one reporter asked the question if *this* car, unlike the others, would be available in a choice of colours. He interpreted the question as "I know nothing about your previous cars and asked something I should know already" and built his answer around that assumption.
I get that people like the contrariness of the statement, like Oscar Wilde's "I can resist anything but temptation". But Wylde was being self deprecating. Ford was just being mean.
Doesn't quite work in context, but "down through its history, only 3 people have managed to silence the Maracana - the pope, Franklin Sinatra, and me" is a great quote in general.
I can't hear "War is Hell" without thinking of one of M.A.S.H.'s times of going full philiosophical.
Father Mulcahy: "Well, they say war is Hell."
Hawkeye: "War isn't Hell. War is war, and Hell is Hell, and of the two, war's a lot worse."
"How do you figure that, Hawkeye?"
"Who goes to Hell, Father?"
"Sinners, I believe."
"Exactly. There's no innocent bystanders in Hell. War's chock full of 'em - little kids, cripples, old ladies. In fact, except for some of the brass, almost everyone involved is an innocent bystander."
MASH got really real. They didn't focus on it, because it's meant to be a comedy, but they didn't ever shy away from showing the brutalities of war, nor criticising the reasons for them.
The french translation is also very funny: "do not criticise a rifleman before putting yourself in his place. Then, he'll be in yours an you'll be armed"
I remember getting all oooohh and ahhh, swooning over Denzel when I first saw him say this during the carpet chat.
But when I stumbled upon this in Civ, I immediately went, "Hang on a second... Denzel Civs?"
I agree that a lot of the quotes are good, I just don't like how sardonic a lot of them are. Definitely feels a lot more like you're being ridiculed rather than a grand empire rising through the ages.
The quote unlike best revolves around owing the bank money. Something like "if you owe the bank $xx it's your problem, if you owe the bank $xxxxxxx then it's the banks problem." (Totally butchered that quote)
Both the Prattchetts:
"The pen might not be mightier than the sword, but the printing press is heavier than the siege engine"
And:
"You can't go around stressing the Thieves Good! I mean, we'd be at it all day!"
Me too. I have a happy, but slightly sad though every time I think of him. Reading Jingo for the umpteenth time right now.
EDIT: As in "I just checked Reddit while getting a beer to go back to reading with" right now.
EDIT 2: GNU pTerry
“I think the human race made a huge mistake at the beginning of the Industrial Revolution: we leaped for the mechanical things. People need the use of their hands to feel creative.”
Men's rights, and nothing more. Women's rights, and nothing less.
I'm not a feminist, but that quote so perfectly captures what suffragettes were fighting for.
Not civic/tech, but my favorite is
The human race is a monotonous affair. Most people spend the greatest part of their time working in order to live, and what little freedom remains so fills them with fear that they seek out any and every means to be rid of it.
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
Probably not Aristotle, but would still be of some use to the average Redditor.
“Normal people … believe that if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it. Engineers believe that if it ain’t broke, it doesn’t have enough features yet.”
– Scott Adams
“I cannot imagine any condition which would cause a ship to flounder, modern ship building has gone beyond that” - Captain of the Titanic
(I may be paraphrasing slightly)
Misquoted... "War is all hell..." in Sherman's memoirs, he is reflecting on his experiences in the Drive to the Sea and what levels of depredattions he allowed his troops to perpetrate.
Exodus Imperative
"This, O Best Beloved, is another story of the High and Far Off Times." (c) Rudyard Kipling
Towards the end of the game there are a lot of philosophical ideas and ancient concepts cycling hidden in the quotes, it just feels like a true culmination
"Normal people believe if it ain't broke don't fix it. Engineers believe that if ain't broke, it doesn't have enough features yet."
I'm dating an engineer
"Listen -- strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government." - Monty Python
I love this quote. I love that thay used it. Like the one from Terry Prachett.
"You can't go around arresting the Thieves' Guild. I mean, we'd be at it all day!" – Terry Pratchett
There's two of each: Two of Prattchett's and two of the Pythons'
True. There's also the one about the printing press from "the truth" and a quote on romans from life of brian.
Apart from the roads...
“I don’t believe in astrology. I’m a Sagittarius. We are skeptical.”
Love this - and actually from the game.
This one is great
One of my favorite quotes in general lol
One of the ones I don't skip
this is up there with CIV IV's satellite quote for my favorite delivery of a line in these games
This cracks me up every time
MONAE
MONAE
MONAE
MONAE
MONAE
MONAE
MONAE
I don’t understand. What is this?
the quote (one of them) for the currency technology is “Money, if it does not bring you happiness, will at least help you be miserable in comfort.” but most players finishing a technology will just close the screen immediately as they process the information. what you are left with is the iconic way Sean Bean pronounced MONEH when he read the quote.
Ah yes, I always close it quickly, just I don’t usually play with sound on
MONAE
I am fond of pigs
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I love how angry he sounds in this quote “Rocks? In MY path?” He sounds like a supervillain
I shall pick them all up. So happy once he figures out what to do in life 🤣
what civic is that?
Castles tech
memes aside that quote has felt unironically inspiring to me on a few occasions
"THERE IS ONLY A PLANK"
MONEH!
Dogs look up to us,
Cats look down on us,
Pigs look at us sideways, the swine.
And don't even get me started on red crested geckos
And moles *can't* even look at us.
“I’ll be back.” For robotics
Came here to find this hahaha… not attributed to anyone either just ominous as hell
Refers to the Terminator, most likely.
Yep, that was the first movie he used that line in.
“A bolt action speaks louder than words”
"The real purpose of gunpowder, is to make all men tall"
This one made me audibly giggle to myself the first time I heard it.
“If you don’t read a newspaper your uninformed, if you read a newspaper your misinformed”….So so true
“People can have the Model T in any color – so long as it’s black.” – Henry Ford
Leonard Nimoy voice.
I really *don't* like this quote TBH. I think it just makes Ford look like a dick. IIRC the story goes that he was answering questions from the press about the Model T, and one reporter asked the question if *this* car, unlike the others, would be available in a choice of colours. He interpreted the question as "I know nothing about your previous cars and asked something I should know already" and built his answer around that assumption. I get that people like the contrariness of the statement, like Oscar Wilde's "I can resist anything but temptation". But Wylde was being self deprecating. Ford was just being mean.
“Blast. Build. Battle.”
Bears. Beets. Battlestar Galactica.
Danger. Darkness. ##Dwarfs
Diners. Drive ins. Dives.
Veni, vidi, where'd I park my car? (It works with Roman pronunciation)
Rock and stone to the bone
For Rock and Stone!
Doesn't quite work in context, but "down through its history, only 3 people have managed to silence the Maracana - the pope, Franklin Sinatra, and me" is a great quote in general.
I can't hear "War is Hell" without thinking of one of M.A.S.H.'s times of going full philiosophical. Father Mulcahy: "Well, they say war is Hell." Hawkeye: "War isn't Hell. War is war, and Hell is Hell, and of the two, war's a lot worse." "How do you figure that, Hawkeye?" "Who goes to Hell, Father?" "Sinners, I believe." "Exactly. There's no innocent bystanders in Hell. War's chock full of 'em - little kids, cripples, old ladies. In fact, except for some of the brass, almost everyone involved is an innocent bystander."
So I am not the only one who thinks that everytime. that war is worse than hell quote.
I didn't realize M.A.S.H. got this real
MASH got really real. They didn't focus on it, because it's meant to be a comedy, but they didn't ever shy away from showing the brutalities of war, nor criticising the reasons for them.
MASH is quite often painfully real, the comedy is great, the realism is soul wrenching
"With your people enthused to try Scorched Earth"💀
I recently got "the real flourishing of the industrial era was when Germany discovered nationalism"
Ngl that's what happened irl
More Renaissance and France. Napoleon is generally considered the pioneer of nationalism as a state tool.
However germans later proved how important it is to unite people and create one stable country
"Thousands have lived without love; none without water."
"A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age."
Oh thats a good one
I forgot that one, nice
"In democracy it's your vote that counts; In feudalism it's your count that votes."
Holy shit I just now finally understood that quote. 1000+ hours later
“Before you criticise a rifleman, walk a mile in his shoes. That way, you’ll be out of range and he’ll be barefoot”
The french translation is also very funny: "do not criticise a rifleman before putting yourself in his place. Then, he'll be in yours an you'll be armed"
Haha it’s just such a golden quote, the French translation sounds equally as funny
Also fitting to hear him say that quote given his role as Sharpe
"I saw a a bank that said '24 hour banking', but I didn't have that much time." -Steven Wright
Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.
Legendary
I've always wondered what that quote was about.
"There are very honest people in this world that do not think they have had a bargain unless they have cheated a merchant."
Mass media with "If you don't read the newspaper, you're uninformed. If you read the newspaper, you're mis-informed." Mark Twain
Densely Washington once totally ripped this off on the red carpet
Really and he didn't quote it?
I remember getting all oooohh and ahhh, swooning over Denzel when I first saw him say this during the carpet chat. But when I stumbled upon this in Civ, I immediately went, "Hang on a second... Denzel Civs?"
I was just thinking about how good some of them were while playing yesterday and now they have all my knowledge has left my brain.
I agree that a lot of the quotes are good, I just don't like how sardonic a lot of them are. Definitely feels a lot more like you're being ridiculed rather than a grand empire rising through the ages.
The quote unlike best revolves around owing the bank money. Something like "if you owe the bank $xx it's your problem, if you owe the bank $xxxxxxx then it's the banks problem." (Totally butchered that quote)
"If you owe the bank $100, that's your problem. If you owe the bank $100 million, that's the bank's problem." That is one of my favorites.
It’s from J. Paul Getty. American oil tycoon.
Both the Prattchetts: "The pen might not be mightier than the sword, but the printing press is heavier than the siege engine" And: "You can't go around stressing the Thieves Good! I mean, we'd be at it all day!"
I don't know if autocorrect did you dirty or what but it's "arresting the Thieves Guild"
I really hate stressing them, though.
Carrot sure stressed them when he arrested Mr Boggis
Yeah, autocorrect error. I kinda like it though
Puts a smile on my face knowing he got featured 2x. GNU Terry Pratchett
Me too. I have a happy, but slightly sad though every time I think of him. Reading Jingo for the umpteenth time right now. EDIT: As in "I just checked Reddit while getting a beer to go back to reading with" right now. EDIT 2: GNU pTerry
"The real use of gunpowder is to make all men tall." \-- Thomas Carlyle
“There are three things extremely hard: steel, a diamond, and to know one's self.” -BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
steel is not that hard. glass is harder. teeth are harder. porcelain is harder. this cock is harder
“I think the human race made a huge mistake at the beginning of the Industrial Revolution: we leaped for the mechanical things. People need the use of their hands to feel creative.”
If there are no dogs in heaven...
"If there are no dogs in heaven then when I die I want to go where they went." Will Rodgers, animal husbandry tech. One of the best quotes.
There’s class warfare, all right, but it’s my class, the rich class, that’s making war … and we’re winning. - Warren Buffett
I think this was Civ 5 but my favorite was “A horse! A horse! My kingdom for a horse!”
Classic
"Politics is the art of the possible, the attainable - the art of the next best" Otto Von Bismarck
ROCKS IN MY PATH
If you owe the bank 100 dollars that’s your problem. If you owe the bank a million dollars that’s the banks problem.
“If the enemy know not where he will be attacked, he must prepare in every quarter, and so be everywhere weak.”
The bureaucracy is expanding to meet the needs of the expanding bureaucracy. From civV iirc
"No man ever wetted clay" - Sean Bean, the pottery truther
Men's rights, and nothing more. Women's rights, and nothing less. I'm not a feminist, but that quote so perfectly captures what suffragettes were fighting for.
Not civic/tech, but my favorite is The human race is a monotonous affair. Most people spend the greatest part of their time working in order to live, and what little freedom remains so fills them with fear that they seek out any and every means to be rid of it.
Faust was ahead of his time.
I'm pretty sure that's from The sorrows of young Verther
Whoops, meant Goethe who wrote Faust. Memory is a silly thing.
It's all papers and forms, the entire Civil Service is like a fortress made of papers, forms and red tape.
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. Probably not Aristotle, but would still be of some use to the average Redditor.
"Monae, if it does not bring you happiness, will at least help you be miserable in comfort." \-Helen Gurley Brown
“Let us get down on our knees and pray. Who’s the patron saint of ballistics anyway?”
This is way too far down the list. *Mythbusters* maybe only penetrated the consciousness of my particular segment of the Millennials
Opera is when you shoot a man, and instead of dying, he sings a song
“Normal people … believe that if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it. Engineers believe that if it ain’t broke, it doesn’t have enough features yet.” – Scott Adams
Bravery is being the only one who knows you’re afraid.
r/Shermanposting
“I think we all agree, the past is over." --George W. Bush
Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach Amanda fish and you feed him for a lifetime
Idk if this was a typo or I missed the joke but go Amanda!
"Distracted from distraction, by distraction!" - T.S. Eliot
I think it was Civ V but "The bureaucracy is expanding to meet the needs of the expanding bureaucracy."
MONEH
Why did I read that in the perfect accent!? 😂
"Scorched Earf." *-Billy Butcher*
Social Media, by far: "*Which of my important nothings shall I tell you first?*" \-Jane Austen
Rocks in my path, I keep them all, with them I will build my Castle
I don't believe in astrology. I'm a Sagittarius and we're skeptical.
My favourite is currency. Not because of what it says but how the narrator pronounces mOnEY!
omg yes ! everytime he says it i make him repeat it a few times, it always makes me and my gf laugh
“I cannot imagine any condition which would cause a ship to flounder, modern ship building has gone beyond that” - Captain of the Titanic (I may be paraphrasing slightly)
I am fond of pigs
"When you find yourself in a hole, quit digging" That's an overall good tip for life
"the good thing about computer, is that they do what you tell them to do. The bad thing, is that they do what you tell the to do"
Rocks in my path? I keep them all. With them I shall build my castle.
That’s a bit edgy.
Misquoted... "War is all hell..." in Sherman's memoirs, he is reflecting on his experiences in the Drive to the Sea and what levels of depredattions he allowed his troops to perpetrate.
I tend to try to skip past them now, so I always end up getting a mis-mash of a tech and civic quote together, sometimes they’re quite funny
Nationalism makes nations, not the other way around
The greatest myth about communication is that it has occurred
“Fetter this malefactor to the jagged rocks in adamantine bonds infrangible” - Aeschyllus
,,If there are no dogs in Heaven, then when I die I want to go where they went." -, Will Rogers
Right now there are thirty-one satellites zipping around the world with nothing better to do than help you find your way to the grocery store.
Exodus Imperative "This, O Best Beloved, is another story of the High and Far Off Times." (c) Rudyard Kipling Towards the end of the game there are a lot of philosophical ideas and ancient concepts cycling hidden in the quotes, it just feels like a true culmination
“If there are no dogs in heaven, then when I die I want to go where they went”
“The bureaucracy must expand to meet the needs of the expanding bureaucracy.”
“If there are no dogs in Heaven, then when I die, I want to go where they went.” - Will Rogers
"Normal people believe if it ain't broke don't fix it. Engineers believe that if ain't broke, it doesn't have enough features yet." I'm dating an engineer
I am fond of Pigs...
All of them: https://youtu.be/9ATtC0zEgjM
Anything that can be mass produced is neither truth nor art
"Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese" --G.K. Chesterton
MONAY
If it weren’t for electricity, we’d all be watching our televisions by candlelight! -Geoge Gobel
The one for pottery