"There is no good and no evil, there are only those who have power and those who are to weak to gain it" - Professor Quirrel in Harry Potter 1. (Ok, that quote probably wasn't exactly like that, especially since I translated the german translation to english, but you get the picture)
"This jacket is dry-clean only, which means it's dirty. My fake plants died because I did not pretend to water them. I find that a duck's opinion of me is very influenced over whether or not I have bread. I like escalators, because an escalator can never be broken, it can only become stairs. I saw a couple driving that had a bumper sticker that said 'Just Married,' so I stopped them and said, 'No, you're so much more than that.' I have a vest. If my arms got chopped off it would be a jacket." ~Mitch Hedburg
"We'll have a Bloody Mary first thing, a bite at the King's Head, couple at the Little Princess, stagger back here and bang! Back at the bar for shots! How's that for a slice of fried gold?" ~Ed, Shaun of the Dead
one moment, you're a baby. Next moment, a blue skeleton wearing a red snapback is punching you in the face. Life hits you hard. ~ndogmario
I am the Emperor. For millenia I have stridden across life carefully watching as the seed of what is to come has risen from its earthly barrows into the starlit sky. This seed, known as Mankind, I have existed along from the time of my birth. I let the seed grow, I nurtured it, did my best to have it remain healthy and secure. But, as it kept on growing, I could not keep up. I could not come with it, but could only watch from afar as its health deteriorated and vegetation grew bleak. As I entered into the realm of the half-life the only thing I could experience was despair. My work that I had driven to construct for such a long time had been obliterated in but a mere moment. Mankind, my once pure seed, had fallen into the hands of sheer, corrosive, and preposterous prudence. And at no other time has this been displayed as intensely as this very moment. Because Holy ******* **** These Questions are the worst ******* **** I have ever read. What ever became of mankind? - Emperor of Mankind. (If the Emperor had a Text to Speech Device)
"The reason I prefer the sledgehammer to the rapier and the reason I believe in blunt, violent, confrontational forms for the presentation of my ideas is because I see what's happening to the lives of people is not rapierlike, it is not gentle, it is not subtle. It is direct, hard, and violent. The slow violence of poverty, the slow violence of untreated disease. Of unemployment, hunger, discrimination. This isn't the violence of some guy opening fire with an Uzi in a McDonald's and forty people are dead. The real violence that goes on every day, unheard, unreported, over and over, multiplied by a millionfold." -George Carlin
"The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum." -Noam Chomsky
"Suppose that you were sitting down at a table. The napkins are in front of you, which napkin would you take? The one on your ‘left’? Or the one on your ‘right’? The one on your left side? Or the one on your right side? Usually you would take the one on your left side. That is ‘correct’ too. But in a larger sense on society, that is wrong. Perhaps I could even substitute ‘society’ with the ‘Universe’. The correct answer is that ‘It is determined by the one who takes his or her own napkin first.’ …Yes? If the first one takes the napkin to their right, then there’s no choice but for others to also take the ‘right’ napkin. The same goes for the left. Everyone else will take the napkin to their left, because they have no other option. This is ‘society’… Who are the ones that determine the price of land first? There must have been someone who determined the value of money, first. The size of the rails on a train track? The magnitude of electricity? Laws and Regulations? Who was the first to determine these things? Did we all do it, because this is a Republic? Or was it Arbitrary? NO! The one who took the napkin first determined all of these things! The rules of this world are determined by that same principle of ‘right or left?’! In a Society like this table, a state of equilibrium, once one makes the first move, everyone must follow! In every era, this World has been operating by this napkin principle. And the one who ‘takes the napkin first’ must be someone who is respected by all. It’s not that anyone can fulfill this role… Those that are despotic or unworthy will be scorned. And those are the ‘losers’. In the case of this table, the ‘eldest’ or the ‘Master of the party’ will take the napkin first… Because everyone ‘respects’ those individuals." President Funny Valentine (Jojo's Bizzare Adventure Part 7: Steel Ball Run)
“Don’t be deceived when they tell you things are better now. Even if there’s no poverty to be seen because the poverty’s been hidden. Even if you ever got more wages and could afford to buy more of these new and useless goods which industries foist on you and even if it seems to you that you never had so much, that is only the slogan of those who still have much more than you. Don’t be taken in when they paternally pat you on the shoulder and say that there’s no inequality worth speaking of and no more reason to fight because if you believe them they will be completely in charge in their marble homes and granite banks from which they rob the people of the world under the pretense of bringing them culture. Watch out, for as soon as it pleases them they’ll send you out to protect their gold in wars whose weapons, rapidly developed by servile scientists, will become more and more deadly until they can with a flick of the finger tear a million of you to pieces.” -Jean-Paul Marat "The mind once enlightened cannot again become dark." -Thomas Paine "The high-minded man must care more for the truth than what other people think." -Aristotle
