Quotes LXVI



"Yeah, I'm a fascist, but for the Left..."
-- Woody Allen, Manhatten (1977)
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‘You are reserved for a great Monday!’ Fine, but Sunday will never end."
-- Kafka
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There is no telling how many wars it will take to secure freedom in the homeland.
-- George W. Bush, speech on August 7, 2002
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Many persons left their jobs for the more profitable one of selling apples."
-- Herbert Hoover, Link
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"There's enough information on this site to sink a fucking battleship, to confirm virtually everything you believe."
-- slimmouse, Rigorous Intuition Board.
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..."That which is, is, and cannot simultaneously not be."
-- Reginald Garrigou-Lagrange
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“Universal brotherhood is not even a beautiful dream. Antagonism is essential to man’s greatest efforts.”
-- Theodor Hertzl, Der Judenstaat, 1896
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“If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading.”
-- Lao Tzu
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"Never dig up your father."
-- Eric Olson
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"When you're dealing with the networks, gentleman, you're dealing with a shadow government."
-- ABC Supreme Court correspondent, Tim O'Brien, explaining why the station refused to run video taped evidence of vote fraud.
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"... having a job in consensus reality felt like a part of my soul was being killed."
-- Paul Levy
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"Planning for a U.S.-led NATO intervention in Kosovo is now largely in place.... The only missing element seems to be an event - with suitably vivid media coverage - that would make the intervention politically salable."
-- U.S. Senate Republican Policy Committee, August 12, 1998.
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"I must say that among educated people politics occupies far too great a proportion of time. All the periodicals, all the newspapers are saturated with politics, although many of the objects they are discussing are very transient and short term...In truth, questions of a higher spirit cannot even be compared to the sort of blinking frivolity of politics. The ultimate problems of life and death show up the colossal nature of this difference even more. Modern humankind is characterized precisely by this loss of the ability to answer the principal problems of life and death. People are prepared to stuff their heads with anything and to talk on any subject, but only to block off the contemplation of this subject. This is the reason for the increasing pettiness of our society, the concentration on the small and irrelevant. "
--Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Link
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If the brain were simple enough for us to understand it, we would be too simple to understand it.
-- Ken Hill
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"We need a mind-opening weapon. That's the best weapon ..."
-- Anh Duong
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Some things - some stories, places, and names - are simply strange attractors. Invoking them is to create a gravity well, a distortion of reality, in which everything else seems to run towards them...

That's precisely the kind of plausibly weird synchronicity the universe loves to toss back at us when we dwell on such things. But in such cases, the strangeness is greater than the sum of the conspirators, unless we regard the universe as a co-conspirator. And perhaps we should.
-- Jeff Wells,
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"Of all tyrannies, a tyranny exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience."
-- C.S. Lewis
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"simply knowing,... makes us sad. And in fact, those who see and learn only what happens in the world end up sad. But truth means more than just knowing: the knowledge of the truth has as its aim the understanding of the good."
-- Pope Benedict XVI, Link

Posted: Mon - January 21, 2008 at 03:24 AM            

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