Quotes LXXV



Dark Side of the Moon

Us, and them.
And after all we're only ordinary men.
Me, and you.
God only knows it's 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.
-- Pink Floyd
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Put down the flags. Just stand in a field for a while; the result is the same and no one gets hurt.
-- Prof. David MacFadyen, http://www.moscow.ucla.edu/?p=1936
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... Imperial stratagems are protracted affairs. The captains of world aggression measure their achievements, or failures, on a timescale whose unit is the generation.
-- Guido Preparata, "Conjuring Hitler, pg 15.
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"We're the Congress of the United States; we're not the board of Goldman Sachs."
-- Dennis Kucinich
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"...nothing can be more profoundly and meticulously deliberate than the measured footsteps of a the man who no longer knows where he is going, though he is on his way."
-- Thorstein Veblen
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"Panics do not destroy capital; they merely reveal the extent to which it has been previously destroyed by its betrayal into hopelessly unproductive works"
-- John Stuart Mill
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They gorge on God and the world. They do not sow. They just reap. They are the sorcerers in the flesh [who] make gold over the phone...‘I was sitting in a great waiting-room and its name was Europe. The train was due to leave in a week. I knew that. But no one could tell me where it was going or what would become of me. And now we are again seated in the waiting-room, and again ts name is Europe! And again we do not know what will happen! We live provisionally, the crisis goes on without end!’.
-- Erich Kästner, Hymn to the Bankers/Fabian.2, From G.C. Preparata, Conjuring Hitler, Chapter 4
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"You are a den of vipers. I intend to rout you out and by the Eternal God I will rout you out. If the people only understood the rank injustice of our money and banking system, there would be a revolution before morning."
-- Andrew Jackson, 1828 (to a group of investment bankers trying to persuade him to renew their charter)
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"...inflation also will increase the price of wheelbarrows!"
-- Bill Anderson
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"... a perfectly just society which was entirely lacking in courage, courtesy, loyalty, hospitality, liberality, grace, and friendship would still be a hell on earth."
-- Blog commenter Araglin
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That’s the problem with charismatic leaders. They ask you to follow them through hell and high water, and that’s exactly where they take you.
-- Joseph Cannon
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“Your cause is lost, I know it’s lost, it’s lost every day and every hour, you know it is. You think your little miracles will help these people? I tell you, chaos rules. And I am its Prince.”
Winged being in Anne Rice's "Christ the Lord"
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"The world is like a ride at an amusement park. And when you choose to go on it, you think it's real because that's how powerful our minds are. And the ride goes up and down and round and round. It has thrills and chills and it's very brightly colored and it's very loud and it's fun, for a while. Some people have been on the ride for a long time, and they begin to question: Is this real, or is this just a ride? And other people have remembered, and they come back to us, they say, "Hey – don't worry, don't be afraid ever, because this is just a ride." And we … kill those people. "Shut him up. We have a lot invested in this ride. Shut him up. Look at my furrows of worry. Look at my big bank account and my family. This just has to be real." It's just a ride. But we always kill those good guys who try and tell us that, you ever notice that?
-- Bill Hicks
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"So, how long is 1984 supposed to last?"
-- Forum comment
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Posted: Thu - October 16, 2008 at 04:02 PM            

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