Super Quotes for Super Heroes

[Darren Dirt]

"
There is something about giving a man a badge, a uniform and a gun which turns him into a thug. Or maybe those things merely attract people who are already thugs. There is a nice concept that the police exist to protect our rights, to stop people from hurting us, to keep the peace. Those notions are long outdated. They stopped being peace officers and became law officers.
"


- insightful introduction to a blog entry about cops harassing... wait for it... historians.

The real, and sad, question is: do "peace" officers consider historians a lesser or greater danger than incontinent children*?



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* update: more balanced story, less misquoting etc.

[Darren Dirt]

"
Capitalism has been as unmistakable a success as socialism has been a failure.

Here is the part that's hard to swallow. It has been the Friedmans, Hayeks, and von Miseses who have maintained that capitalism would flourish and that socialism would develop incurable ailments. All three have regarded capitalism as the 'natural' system of free men; all have maintained that left to its own devices capitalism would achieve material growth more successfully than any other system.

From [my samplings] I draw the following discomforting generalization: The farther to the right one looks, the more prescient has been the historical foresight; the farther to the left, the less so.
"


- prolific socialist (anti-capitalist!) author Robert Heilbroner , as re-quoted in the insightful reflection entitled "Galbraith, wrong then and always"

[Darren Dirt]

Brian: Look, you've got it all wrong! You don't NEED to follow ME, you don't NEED to follow ANYBODY! You've got to think for yourselves! You're ALL individuals!

The Crowd (in unison): Yes! We're all individuals!

Brian: You're all different!

The Crowd (in unison): Yes, we ARE all different!

Man in Crowd: I'm not...

The Crowd: Shhh!

- Monty Python's "The Life of Brian"

[Darren Dirt]

...today, we can no longer teach the love of god, because some godless person may be offended.

The same reason we can no longer teach morality*

*because, presumably, some immoral person may be offended?

(excerpted from another AiLL discussion, about racism or control or something, not quite sure )

[Free Radical]

"It is hard to fight an enemy who has outposts in your head." - Sally Kempton.

[Darren Dirt]

There is unrest in the forest,
There is trouble with the trees,
For the maples want more sunlight
And the oaks ignore their pleas.

The trouble with the maples,
(And they're quite convinced they're right)
They say the oaks are just too lofty
And they grab up all the light.
But the oaks can't help their feelings
If they like the way they're made.
And they wonder why the maples
Can't be happy in their shade.

There is trouble in the forest,
And the creatures all have fled,
As the maples scream "Oppression!"
And the oaks just shake their heads

So the maples formed a union
And demanded equal rights.
"The oaks are just too greedy;
We will make them give us light."
Now there's no more oak oppression,
For they passed a noble law,
And the trees are all kept equal
By hatchet, axe, and saw.

-Rush, "The Trees"

I love allegorical songs...

[NonEntity]

Liam Clancy to Bob Dylan, "Remember Bob: No fear, no envy, no meanness."

[yeoman]

Notice the reply #?

[Darren Dirt]

"If you don't like what we tell you to believe in, we'll kill you."

- George W Bush, in an uncommonly candid moment

[Darren Dirt]

"It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer."
- Albert Einstein

[tru2form]

"Those who make peaceful change impossible
will make violent revolution inevitable."
John F. Kennedy

[Darren Dirt]

Give me the sense to wonder
To wonder if I'm free
Give me a sense of wonder
To know I can be me
Give me the strength to hold my head up
Spit back in their face
Don't need no key to unlock this door
Gonna break down the walls
Break out of this bad place

- Iron Maiden, "Can I Play With Madness"

(like most 80s/90s metal song its theme is semi-ambiguous, but that opening verse could totally apply to the "awakening" process...)

[tru2form]

Choice comment DD!!

[eye2i2hear]

1 vote for evil doesn't matter much; but 1 less vote for any evil is one less point of power upon which the evil feeds.

slightly edited for personal point;
excerpted from the original by sagas4 here

with added commentary as:

I call for your attention: the genuine (real) "vote" is where (as how) one spends one's money-- period.
(that thing called a "vote" done at election day is merely The Wizard of Oz's "curtain")

"taxes" are just one place it can be spent... (crucial as it is to "feeding" evil)

time IS money, thus money = time and time = your'self' (aka "investment").

You nor I can control any other's investment --time spent as money spent.
Nor any other's immorality (eg 1 participation in evil).
Only our own.

signed,
Toto

[marc stevens]

Not complete without this:

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