Je Suis Charlie

Re:Je Suis Charlie by baby on Wednesday January 07, 2015 @01:28PM (#8852244)

note that everyone is quoting Charb on this, sometimes just quoting the "I'd rather die on my feet, than live on my knees" that is actually him quoting someone else:

http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Emiliano_Zapata

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Re:Je Suis Charlie by julie1 on Wednesday January 07, 2015 @03:28PM (#8853079)

weired in my old greek lessons it was already said to be the motto of Athen. http://chs.harvard.edu/CHS/article/display/3824

Maybe Zappata went to school and studied the story of Athen?

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Re:Je Suis Charlie by burkaman on Wednesday January 07, 2015 @06:27PM (#8854033)

Did you mean to link to a different page? That one doesn't have anything like the Zapata quote.

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Re:Je Suis Charlie by majestic1211 on Wednesday January 07, 2015 @07:44PM (#8854368)

There is not the Zappata quote, but it still seems relevant :

"Finally, for the Homeric hero, aretê consisted of a set of qualities clustered around the readiness to fight a beautiful war and die a beautiful death."

"preferring to die in their own land rather than live to dwell in that of others"

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Re:Je Suis Charlie by CWuestefeld on Thursday January 08, 2015 @10:05AM (#8856647)

This has surely been a widespread meme for some time. The quote triggered for me a recollection of the Metallica lines:

  Living on your knees, conformity
  Or dying on your feet for honesty

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Re:Je Suis Charlie by _almosnow on Wednesday January 07, 2015 @06:17PM (#8853975)

Cars and mortgages... the Greeks sure were really ahead of their time.

Edit: Yeah sure, downvote me instead of the guy that is posting nonsense...

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