Favorite quotes ever?
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You say you will sacrifice as much freedom as necessary. Your own words, right there. Let me ask you this, then: How much security is enough? Cameras on every street corner so no illicit activity can go unseen? Secret police who make people disappear and only sometimes bring them back -- to "root out insurgents for the good of the nation," of course? Laws against peaceable assembly, so you and your mates can't get together any longer, but it's okay because neither can "the bad guys"? Cameras and microphones in your house, so you can't even have sex without someone else watching? Profanity indicates unhappy thoughts, shall we ban that -- in fact why don't we make really sure by banning free speech altogether, that kind of stuff is full of dangerous ideas. Shall we ban anything with a sharp edge, because it might be used to cut or threaten people? That's not so unreasonable, airlines already won't let you board with a pocket knife. Have fun shaving with plastic razors. Let's see, what else: fatty foods, television, private dwelling places, books, the lists will go on and on.Mr. Fancy Pants said:
Lest you think I'm being paranoid these kinds of restrictions have been placed on the peoples of this earth and will continue to be placed there. I am not a conspiracy nut (make any joke you like). It is simply the natural tendency and self-interest of government to grab more and more power. It doesn't start with the iron hand of oppression. It starts small, with some creative reinterpretation of law so phone taps can be placed on suspected criminals. Then authority reasons like this: we're not even sure this guy is a criminal; even if he is, criminals are still citizens; if you can tap one citizen, you can tap any citizen. Just like that, one of your rights has been removed with no more than a little handwave. Then they chip away at something else. Before you know it you've got nothing left, you're living in the world above. And you *still* don't feel safe because, after all, your friend disappeared the other day. You're pretty sure the secret police have him -- what might he be telling them this very moment? Is he a good enough friend not to finger you for something you haven't even done just to escape punishment himself?
If you choose security, that's your choice. But too much security can be as bad as none at all. Give The Gulag Archipelago a read sometime if you don't believe me.
"I may be drunk, Miss, but in the morning I will be sober and you will still be ugly."
By the great Winston Churchill.
By the great Winston Churchill.
"We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope."
-Martin Luther King Jr.
"Common sense is not so common."
-Voltaire
-Martin Luther King Jr.
"Common sense is not so common."
-Voltaire
Person 1: God spoke to you and said this.
Person 1: Bob.
Person 2: But my name's Billy.
Person 1: IT DOESN'T MATTER WHAT YOUR NAME IS!
Person 1: Bob.
Person 2: But my name's Billy.
Person 1: IT DOESN'T MATTER WHAT YOUR NAME IS!
the third one is from Bob Dylan right?tigermilk said:
when i read it i hear it his voice but i cant for the life of me come up with the name of the song
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"that's what she said"
or
"I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it." by Evelyn Beatrice Hall
and not by Voltaire, to who it is mostly attributed to
"Over a study i've conducted over many years I have finally concluded that our diet has something to do with what we eat"
Gotta be best quote from game ever, Assassins Creed Brotherhood: "I hope they let us go inside"
I have a lot of favorite quotes but my favorite is from Black Hawk Down where Hoot and Sgt Eversmen are about to go on the mission
"Y'know what I think? Don't really matter what I think. Once that first bullet goes past your head, politics and all that shit just goes right out the window."
Hoot from Black Hawk Down
"Y'know what I think? Don't really matter what I think. Once that first bullet goes past your head, politics and all that shit just goes right out the window."
Hoot from Black Hawk Down
