Great Quotes II: Source and Context are Key

[Thorvald of Lym]

Agreed, as evidenced by the continued support for neoliberalism despite everything that's happened since 2008. That, and the climate change "debate".

Is that why libertarians seem to hate Keynesian economics?

Libertarians seem to hate every sustainable form of economics.

 

[Phrossack]

"If you're quick with a knife, you'll find the invisible hand is made of delicious invisible meat."
-Black Hat, xkcd

 

[SS-18 ICBM]

"The fear of death is more to be dreaded than death itself."
-Publius Syrus, No. 511, Maxims as translated by D. Lyman Jr in p. 48, The moral sayings of Publius Syrus, a Roman slave.

 

[Dachs]

"Publilius", isn't it?

 

[SS-18 ICBM]

Might be. I just went with how the book spelled it.

 

[madviking]

And there's a million of us just like me
Who cuss like me; who just don't give a f**k like me
Who dress like me; walk, talk and act like me
And just might be the next best thing but not quite me

yes i'm madviking...

 

[Dachs]

"You," he said with ponderous precision. "Are not here. For the party."

"Got that right. Sit down before you fall down."

"While I am indebted. To you, master Monassbite Esoterassbite assassassassbite, for your kind hospitassitude. I would prefer to stand, [fornicate] you very much." Tyrkilld blinked again. "What are you doing here?"

"Your buddy Markham got me a room. By no [fornicating] coincidence at all. Quite a sense of humor, that sonofa[dog]."

"While I freely admit. To a catalogue of sins innumerable. Mortal, venial, and merely cheerful." He swayed, and swung the flagon in a violent circle that managed to spill not a drop. "Accuse me but once more of being friend to Lord Tarkanen, sir, and we shall again. Make trial. Of Khryl's Justice."

-Tyrkilld, Knight Aeddhar, and Caine, Caine Black Knife

 

[Mechanicalsalvation]

Keynes wasn't normal, then.

“It may be normal, darling; but I'd rather be natural.”
― Truman Capote, Breakfast at Tiffany's

Most people usually keep their original conclusions; then either ignore the changed information, deny the changed information, or distort it to fit the original conclusion.

Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.

Oscar Wilde

The more time and effort you've invested in reaching your original conclusion, the less likely you'll be to change.

John's time and effort were, in the main, spent on pretty honorable stuff. As for the other side, well, nobody's perfect, nobody's Jesus. And look what they did to him.

Paul McCartney

Change, about important issues, normally only comes as the result of catastrophe.

To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.
Winston Churchill

It takes a great deal of effort just to keep an open, unprejudiced mind. It's not a terribly efficient way to proceed in the world.

"It's the same each time with progress. First they ignore you, then they say you're mad, then dangerous, then there's a pause and then you can't find anyone who disagrees with you."

Benn, Tony

 

[Borachio]

Don't you get the idea I'm one of those goddamn radicals. Don't get the idea I'm knocking the American system.

Al Capone

 

[Cheezy the Wiz]

Libertarians seem to hate economics.

Fixed that for you.

 

[Gucumatz]

Fixed that for you.

So true. Economists get a bad name when libertarians get involved (But everything gets a bad name when libertarians try to get involved )

 

[Mechanicalsalvation]

"The involution of a superconscient Spirit in inconscient Matter is the secret cause of this visible and apparent world."
Sri Aurobindo

 

[Borachio]

In vain is a net spread wide
if any bird that flies can see it.

Proverbs 1:17

 

[_random_]

So true. Economists get a bad name when libertarians get involved (But everything gets a bad name when libertarians try to get involved )

Especially the word "libertarian."

 

[rugbyLEAGUEfan]

Hewson: I ask the Prime Minister: if you are so confident about your view of Fightback, why will you not call an early election?

Keating: The answer is, mate, because I want to do you slowly. There has to be a bit of sport in this for all of us. In the psychological battle stakes, we are stripped down and ready to go. I want to see those ashen-faced performances; I want more of them. I want to be encouraged. I want to see you squirm out of this load of rubbish over a number of months. There will be no easy execution for you. You have perpetrated one of the great mischiefs on the Australian public with this thing, trying to rip away our social wage, trying to rip away the Australian values which we built in our society for over a century.

Question Time, Australian House of Representatives, 1992.

 

[Optical]

"No matter what the cause, it's better to have loved and lost
Have you ever met a man who never loved at all?"

- The Script, Broken Arrow

 

[ace99]

Hewson: I ask the Prime Minister: if you are so confident about your view of Fightback, why will you not call an early election?

Keating: The answer is, mate, because I want to do you slowly. There has to be a bit of sport in this for all of us. In the psychological battle stakes, we are stripped down and ready to go. I want to see those ashen-faced performances; I want more of them. I want to be encouraged. I want to see you squirm out of this load of rubbish over a number of months. There will be no easy execution for you. You have perpetrated one of the great mischiefs on the Australian public with this thing, trying to rip away our social wage, trying to rip away the Australian values which we built in our society for over a century.

Question Time, Australian House of Representatives, 1992.

Beautiful. Question Time is the finest accomplishment of the Westminster system.

 

[classical_hero]

Hewson: I ask the Prime Minister: if you are so confident about your view of Fightback, why will you not call an early election?

Keating: The answer is, mate, because I want to do you slowly. There has to be a bit of sport in this for all of us. In the psychological battle stakes, we are stripped down and ready to go. I want to see those ashen-faced performances; I want more of them. I want to be encouraged. I want to see you squirm out of this load of rubbish over a number of months. There will be no easy execution for you. You have perpetrated one of the great mischiefs on the Australian public with this thing, trying to rip away our social wage, trying to rip away the Australian values which we built in our society for over a century.

Question Time, Australian House of Representatives, 1992.

"This is the recession we had to have." Paul Keating.

 

[Borachio]

Three things there are which are too wonderful for me,
four which I do not understand:
the way of a vulture in the sky,
the way of a serpent on the rock,
the way of a ship out at sea, and
the way of a man with a girl.

Proverbs 30:18

 

[Tee Kay]

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