Emmanuel Isaiah Smith > Emmanuel's Quotes

“I don't keep any close friends. I don't keep any secrets. I don't need friends. I just tell everybody everything, that's all.”
― Bobby Fischer

“I like the moment when I break a man's ego”
― Bobby Fischer

“All that matters on the chessboard is good moves.”
― Bobby Fischer

“Don’t even mention losing to me. I can’t stand to think of it.”
― Bobby Fischer

“I don’t believe in psychology. I believe in good moves.”
― Bobby Fischer

“There are tough players and nice guys, and I’m a tough player.”
― Bobby Fischer

“I add status to any tournament I attend.”
― Bobby Fischer

“I consider myself to be a genius who happens to play chess.”
― Bobby Fischer

“I want to live the rest of my house in a house built exactly like a rook.”
― Bobby Fischer

“A strong memory, concentration, imagination, and a strong will.”
― Bobby Fischer

“Tactics flow from a superior position.”
― Bobby Fischer

“I am the best player in the world and I am here to prove it.”
― Bobby Fischer

“Someday computers will make us all obsolete. (1975)”
― Bobby Fischer

“I want to be world champion. I have achieved it, now I don’t know what to do.”
― Bobby Fischer

“Too many times, people don’t try their best. They don’t have the keen spirit; the winning spirit. And once you make it you’ve got to guard your reputation – every day go in like an unknown to prove yourself. That’s why I don’t clown around. I don’t believe in wasting time. My goal is to win the World Chess Championship; to beat the Russians. I take this very seriously.”
― Bobby Fischer

“I am ashamed of the race of beings to which I belong. It is so cruel and bigoted, so hypocritical, so soulless and insane. I would rather be an insect ... a bee or a butterfly ... and float in dim dreams among the wild-flowers of summer than be a man and feel the horrible and ghastly wrongs and sufferings of this wretched world.”
― J. Howard Moore

“Yes, do as you would be done by - and not to the dark man and the white woman alone, but to the sorrel horse and the grey squirrel as well; not to creatures of your own anatomy alone, but to all creatures. You cannot go high enough, low enough nor far enough to find those whose bowed and broken beings will not rise up at the coming of the kindly heart, or whose souls will not darken at the touch of inhumanity. Do to beings below as you would be done by beings above you. They are our fellow mortals. They came out of the same mysterious womb of the past, are passing through the same dream, and are destined to the same melancholy end as we ourselves. Let us be kind and merciful to them.”
― J. Howard Moore

“A universe is, indeed, to be pitied whose dominating inhabitants are so unconscious and so ethically embryonic that they make life a commodity, mercy a disease, and systematic massacre a pastime and a profession.”
― J. Howard Moore

“Death and destruction are necessary to the health of the world, and therefore as natural, and lovable, as birth and life. Only priests and born cowards moan and weep over dying. Brave men face it with approving nonchalance.”
― Ragnar Redbeard

“Laws” and “rules” imposed on you
From days of old renown,
Are not intended for your “good”
But for your crushing down.
Then dare to rend the chains that bind
And to yourself be true.
Dare to liberate your mind,
From all things, old and new.”
― Ragnar Redbeard

“Equality can only exist between equals.
Civilization implies division of labor, division of labor implies subordination and subordination implies injustice and inequality.”
― Ragnar Redbeard

“HATE FOR HATE — AND RUTH FOR RUTH,
EYE FOR EYE — AND TOOTH FOR TOOTH,
SCORN FOR SCORN — AND SMILE FOR SMILE,
LOVE FOR LOVE — AND GUILE FOR GUILE,
WAR FOR WAR, — AND WOE FOR WOE,
BLOOD FOR BLOOD — AND BLOW FOR BLOW.”
― Ragnar Redbeard, Might is Right

“He who turns the other cheek is a cowardly dog -- a Christian dog.”
― Ragnar Redbeard, Might is Right

“Govenment is founded on property
Property is founded on conquest
Conquest is founded on power
All power is founded on brain and brawn.”
― Ragnar Redbeard, Might is Right

“The rules of life are not to be found in Korans, Bibles, Decalogues and Constitutions, but rather the rules of decadence and death. The “law of laws” is not written in Hebrew consonants or upon tables of brass and stone, but in every man’s own heart. He who obeys any standard of right and wrong, but the one set up by his own conscience, betrays himself into the hands of his enemies, who are ever laying in wait to bind him to their millstones. And generally a man’s most dangerous enemies are his neighbors.”
― Ragnar Redbeard, MIght Is Right

“The natural world is a world of war; the natural man is a warrior; the natural law is tooth and claw. All else is error. A condition of combat everywhere exists. We are born into perpetual conflict. It is our inheritance, even as it was the heritage of previous generations.”
― Ragnar Redbeard, Might is Right

“The lie that is known to be a lie is half eradicated, but the lie that even intelligent persons regard as a sacred fact – the lie that has been inculcated around a mother’s knee – is more dangerous to contend against than a creeping pestilence.”
― Ragnar Redbeard, MIght Is Right

“Laws" and "Rules" imposed on you From days of old renown. Are not intended for your "good" But for your crushing down. Then dare to rend the chains that bind And to yourself be true. Dare to liberate your mind, From all things, old and new. Always think your own thought. All other thoughts reject; Learn to use your own brain And boldly stand erect.”
― Ragnar Redbeard, Might is Right

“If a man smite you on one cheek, smash him down; smite him hip and thigh, for self-preservation is the highest law.”
― Ragnar Redbeard, Might is Right

“Popular lies have ever been the most potent enemies of personal liberty.”
― Ragnar Redbeard