Great Quotes II: Source and Context are Key
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Thorvald of Lym
A Little Sketchy
"Netanyahu, I can't stand him. He's a liar."
"You're sick of him? I have to deal with him every day."
- Nicolas Sarkozy and Barack Obama on Benjamin Netanyahu
Apparently at the G20 summit last week, some of the translators donned their headsets early and overheard a closed-doors conversation. The exact wording varies depending which news source you choose; this is closest to what I recall from the radio.
"You're sick of him? I have to deal with him every day."
- Nicolas Sarkozy and Barack Obama on Benjamin Netanyahu
Apparently at the G20 summit last week, some of the translators donned their headsets early and overheard a closed-doors conversation. The exact wording varies depending which news source you choose; this is closest to what I recall from the radio.
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Jewel Runner
"In today’s world, in today’s media climate designed to foster the fear our leaders like us to feel because it makes us easier to push around. In a world where limp, wimpy men are forced to talk tough and act ‘badass’ even though we all know they’re [snip] it inside. In a world where the measure of our moral strength has come to lie in the extremity of the images we’re able to look at and stomach. In a world, I’m reliably told, that’s going to the dogs, the real mischief, the real punk rock rebellion, is a snarling, ‘[snip] you’ positivity and optimism. Violent optimism in the face of all evidence to the contrary is the Alpha form of outrage these days. It really freaks people out."- Grant Morrison
Can't source it for obvious reasons, but it shouldn't be too hard to find.
Can't source it for obvious reasons, but it shouldn't be too hard to find.
NedimNapoleon
Weird Little Human
“I am not Christ or a philanthropist, old lady, I am all the contrary of a Christ … I fight for the things I believe in, with all the weapons at my disposal and try to leave the other man dead so that I don’t get nailed to a cross or any other place.”
- Che Guevara
- Che Guevara
"The referendum would have been a break from Byzantinism and a return to our ancient Greek traditions" PM George Papandreou, in his final address to the greek Parliament before his resignation.
Context: After causing Chaos to pretty much the whole world he managed to sum up in a sentence a potential schism in Greek society, without doing anything to avert it
Context: After causing Chaos to pretty much the whole world he managed to sum up in a sentence a potential schism in Greek society, without doing anything to avert it
Tiger got to hunt,
Bird got to fly;
Man got to sit and wonder, "Why, why, why?"
Tiger got to sleep,
Bird got to land;
Man got to tell himself he understand.
Of all the words of mice and men, the saddest are "it might have been."
We talked about the Pope and birth control, about Hitler and the Jews. We talked about phonies. We talked about truth. We talked about gangsters; we talked about business. We talked about the nice poor people who went to the electric chair; and we talked about the rich bastards who didnt. We talked about religious people who had perversions. We talked about a lot of things.
All of the above are from Cat's Cradle (Kurt Vonnegut), which I certainly recommend.
Bird got to fly;
Man got to sit and wonder, "Why, why, why?"
Tiger got to sleep,
Bird got to land;
Man got to tell himself he understand.
Of all the words of mice and men, the saddest are "it might have been."
We talked about the Pope and birth control, about Hitler and the Jews. We talked about phonies. We talked about truth. We talked about gangsters; we talked about business. We talked about the nice poor people who went to the electric chair; and we talked about the rich bastards who didnt. We talked about religious people who had perversions. We talked about a lot of things.
All of the above are from Cat's Cradle (Kurt Vonnegut), which I certainly recommend.
Thorvald of Lym
A Little Sketchy
"Yes, if a people wish to remain free, they must, like Argus, have a hundred eyes, and ever be on the watch. If they sleep, they become weak; each moment of indolence involves the loss of some portion of their rights. An eternal, unceasing vigilance is the price which must be paid for the inappreciable benefit of liberty."
- Sir Wilfrid Laurier, "Lecture on Political Liberalism", 1877
- Sir Wilfrid Laurier, "Lecture on Political Liberalism", 1877
madviking
north american scum
"I ain't been around the world but I been around the block
I ain't seen everything but I seen enough to talk
I ain't a prophet, I ain't the Second Coming of Christ
I'm just a mason with a will to build and a little advice"
Aesop Rock, "No Splash"
I ain't seen everything but I seen enough to talk
I ain't a prophet, I ain't the Second Coming of Christ
I'm just a mason with a will to build and a little advice"
Aesop Rock, "No Splash"
SS-18 ICBM
Oscillator
"Most crushingly of all, you can't choose your [effing] socks. So I can't wear fishnet stockings under a sensible business suit and roleplay as a Conservative MP."
-on the reduction of player clothing options, Ben "Yahtzee" Croshaw, Zero Punctuation: Saints Row: The Third
-on the reduction of player clothing options, Ben "Yahtzee" Croshaw, Zero Punctuation: Saints Row: The Third
Traitorfish
The Tighnahulish Kid
“Whether it was a question of the right of petition or the tax on wine, freedom of the press or free trade, the clubs or the municipal charter, protection of personal liberty or regulation of the state budget, the watchword constantly recurs, the theme remains always the same, the verdict is ever ready and invariably reads: 'Socialism!' Even bourgeois liberalism is declared socialistic, bourgeois enlightenment socialistic, bourgeois financial reform socialistic. It was socialistic to build a railway where a canal already existed, and it was socialistic to defend oneself with a cane when one was attacked with a rapier.
This was not merely a figure of speech, fashion, or party tactics. The bourgeoisie had a true insight into the fact that all the weapons it had forged against feudalism turned their points against itself, that all the means of education it had produced rebelled against its own civilization, that all the gods it had created had fallen away from it. It understood that all the so-called bourgeois liberties and organs of progress attacked and menaced its class rule at its social foundation and its political summit simultaneously, and had therefore become 'socialistic.'”
– Karl Marx, The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte
Something to think about.
This was not merely a figure of speech, fashion, or party tactics. The bourgeoisie had a true insight into the fact that all the weapons it had forged against feudalism turned their points against itself, that all the means of education it had produced rebelled against its own civilization, that all the gods it had created had fallen away from it. It understood that all the so-called bourgeois liberties and organs of progress attacked and menaced its class rule at its social foundation and its political summit simultaneously, and had therefore become 'socialistic.'”
– Karl Marx, The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte
Something to think about.
"Nothing is so dangerous to the progress of the human mind than to assume that our views of science are ultimate, that there are no mysteries in nature, that our triumphs are complete, and that there are no new worlds to conquer." ~ Sir Humphrey Davy
plarq
Crazy forever
"The Proletariat have nothing to lose but their chains, they have a world to win." - Karl Marx
While I don't believe in the latter part, I believe in the first part.
While I don't believe in the latter part, I believe in the first part.
SS-18 ICBM
Oscillator
"I'm baffled. Why would anyone imagine that a prediction of evolution is that humans should be covered with penises?"
-PZ Myers, on how well creationists understand evolutionary principles.
-PZ Myers, on how well creationists understand evolutionary principles.
JohannaK
Heroically Clueless
It matters not how strait the gate,
How charged with punishments the scroll,
I am the master of my fate:
I am the captain of my soul.
-William Ernest Henley, "Invictus"
How charged with punishments the scroll,
I am the master of my fate:
I am the captain of my soul.
-William Ernest Henley, "Invictus"
GoodSarmatian
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Two quotes from Walther Rathenau, Jewish German industrialist and politician during the Weimar Republic:
"When the economy of Europe merges into one community -and this will happen sooner than we think- the politics will also merge."
"Democracy is only the rule of the people in the hands of a political people, in the hands of an uneducated and apolitical people it becomes cliquism and petty burgeois pub talk.
"When the economy of Europe merges into one community -and this will happen sooner than we think- the politics will also merge."
"Democracy is only the rule of the people in the hands of a political people, in the hands of an uneducated and apolitical people it becomes cliquism and petty burgeois pub talk.
madviking
north american scum
"If you really want to rebel against your parents: outearn them, outlive them, and know more than they do."
Henry Rollins
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