Super Quotes for Super Heroes

[Darren Dirt]

Us, and them
And after all we're only ordinary men.
Me, and you.
God only knows its not what we would choose to do.

Forward he cried from the rear
And the front rank died.
And the general sat and the lines on the map
Moved from side to side.
Black and blue
And who knows which is which and who is who.

- Pink Floyd, "Us and Them"

Wikipedia explains: "The song describes the tendency of people to partition themselves from those who are different, in cases such as war, politics, and social class. Moreover, it is a description of the battle between citizens desires and their government..."

[Darren Dirt]

Realizing that there are too many religions, too many ologies, and too many isms, The ABERREE staff, in special executive session, has announced the founding of a completely new organization.

There will be no dues, no diplomas, no special courses, no certificates, no degrees, and no titles. Membership is obtained merely by recognizing that the person is not outside infinity. A card to this effect will be issued if the adherent doubts his ability to convince others that they, too, are not separate beings in an infinity of their own.

The organization will be known as "The Infinites". Dissenters who wish to split off into their own infinities will be called "Split Infinities".

-"Aberree" magazine, V.1 I.7 Pg.3 (November 1954) (also noteworthy: their "policy" page ;D )


The Aberree started out as "the non-serious voice of Scientology" and ultimately encompassed all kinds of spiritual and self-help interests, from psychic phenomena and UFOs to improving eyesight. <-- talk about "scope creep"! ;D (ps: *cough* )

[Darren Dirt]

Use of thermite* alone cannot account for the level of pulverization / dustification seen both during the destruction of the towers and in the aftermath.

-Dr. Judy Wood, responding to the half-truths and misrepresentations in a March 2007 "Hustler" news piece re. Steven Jones (and Alex Jones)...


* Okay, but then what can? ...Oh wait, you can relax now, the gubmint sez "GRAVITY"! Terrific, I feel safe now...

[eye2i2hear]

"To determine, then, what is... fact, we are not to look to the codes of Kings, and Czars, and Kaisers, who maintain their power by force and fraud; who contemptuously call mankind their “subjects;” who claim to have a special license... to rule...;"

All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States...

Applicants for initial issuance of a [State Of] Georgia driver's license, permit or identification card shall provide documentation proving... United States citizenship...

1st quote excerpted from Lysander Spooner – No Treason No. 2: The Constitution, available here: praxeology.net

2nd quote taken from the post war Amendment 14, Section 1, U.S.Constitution (aka "the codes of Kings") available here: Cornell University.edu

3rd quote taken from the Rules and Regulations for Chapter 375-3-1, available here: Georgia Department of Driver's Services online


Online Etymology Dictionary:

subject (v.):
1382, "to make (a person or nation) subject to another by force," also "to render submissive or dependent," from L. subjectare, from the root of subject (n.)."
subject (n.):
1315, "person under control or dominion of another"; from sub "under" + combining form of jacere "to throw."

jurisdiction:
c.1300... from jus (gen. juris; see jurist) "right, law" + dictionem (nom. dictio) "a saying."

juris:
from L. jus, ius (gen. juris) "law," L. ius "law," from PIE *yewes- "law,"; jurist: originally a term of religious cult, perhaps meaning "sacred formula"... Meaning "a legal writer" is from 1626.

diction:
1542, from L.L. dictionem (nom. dictio), from L. "a saying, expression, word," from dic-, stem of dicere "speak, tell, say," related to dicare "proclaim, dedicate,"

jurisdiction = to say/to tell/to proclaim (what is/is not) the law (The Great Oz has "spoken")
subject = to be under the control (of that said)
citizen = subject
subject (v) = subject (n)

[Darren Dirt]

"I AM NOT A CITIZEN! I AM A FREE MAN!"
- in homage / with apologies to "The Prisoner"

[eye2i2hear]

"...separation of church and state"?

how about just separation from both!?!
or:
how about separation of The State and the land!?!"

--an email "fwd"

[freeborn]

There is no greed in desiring more, there is only greed in
stealing the labors of another. Theft is evil. It is the nature of
authority to steal. Only tyrants posses greed.

Obedience is the object of authority,
and authority wants no possibility of rebellion. The definition of
insanity is blind obedience.

Jeremy Locke

[Darren Dirt]

Judging American health care only by such statistics [life expectancy, infant mortality rates, etc.] is like declaring Cuban democracy stronger than America's based on voter turnout.

- Dr. David Gratzer, "The Cure: How Capitalism Can Save American Health Care"

[ayanrand]

"Everyone must know for all future time that if he raises his hand to strike the State, then certain death is his lot."

-Adolph Hitler

[eye2i2hear]

List of famous misquotations - Wikipedia:

"The ends justify the means." — Niccolò Machiavelli

* A more literal translation, according to Peter Bondanella and Julia Bondanella of Indiana University, is, "One must consider the final result."
...

"I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it." ("Je désapprouve ce que vous dites, mais je défendrai à la mort votre droit à le dire") — Voltaire

* This line comes from the book Friends of Voltaire (1907) by Beatrice Hall. It resembles the actual quote
"Think for yourselves and let others enjoy the privilege to do so too," from Voltaire's Essay on Tolerance.

[Darren Dirt]

Wow, nice finds 2i2!

...can I quote you on those?

[lummox2]

darrendirt said:

"I AM NOT A CITIZEN! I AM A FREE MAN!"
- in homage / with apologies to "The Prisoner"

From the series -

"I am not a number, I am a free man!"

"Would you like to go home, number 6?"

[Darren Dirt]

"There is one thing stronger than all the armies of the world, and that is an idea whose time has come"
- somebody (but probably not Victor Hugo)

And here's one that you can actually verify yourself...

"Be the miracle!"
- His Uber-Awesome Holiness The Omnipotent Grandfatherly Creator God (a.k.a. Morgan Freeman) in "Bruce Almighty"

[eye2i2hear]

"The independently poor, who choose to wander the highways and sleep on sidewalks and in parks, are living denials of the commitments the rest of us have made to the system and take for granted.

While one may remain part of the class of the institutional poor, the Corporate-State alliance wars against people being independently poor. To be independently poor is to be outside the system, unattached to an institution, a walking advertisement that one may reject the established order and its values and yet survive. To be on the outside trying to get in is quite permissible, even if one never succeeds: it demonstrates a commitment to the collective order. But to be on the outside by choice; to be content living without a permanent home, a telephone or television set, an automobile, a computer and cell phone, mortgages and insurance policies, and all those other trappings of the "American way of life," is a threat to the system itself."

---Butler Shaffer in his online book Wizards of Ozymandias

[*source quoted in hopes other's will consider reading the writings duly noting, I wish Mr Shaffer would work on his "either/or" grouping/lumping pronouns a tad]

[Darren Dirt]

"Lewis Libby was somehow able to perjure himself for a non-crime he didn't commit. It's like an Encyclopedia Brown mystery penned by Kafka."

-Sam Ryskind, "Fresh Meat" ("Patrick Fitzgerald Turns a Big Screwdriver", 07Mar2007)


^ wow, totally reminds me of how the inJustice System works in general -- crime? victim? evidence? culpability? OPTIONAL!