A quote the LDD might like...

[LMNO]

"Governments fall from sheer indifference. Authority figures, deprived of the vampiric energy they suck off their constituents, are seen for what they are: dead empty masks manipulated by computers.

"And what is behind the computers? Remote control, of course.  Look at the prison you are in, we are all in. This is a penal colony that is now a Death Camp. Place of the Second and Final Death.

"Desperation is the raw material of drastic change. Only those who leave behind everything they have ever believed in can hope to escape.  I don't intend to be there when the shithouse goes up.

"Nothing here now but the recordings. Shut them off, they are as radioactive as an old joke."

-- William S. Burroughs from "Soul Killer"

[Cain]

Nice, thanks.  I may have look for that when I go down the bookshop in a bit.  Incidentally, if you go here there are plently of nice quotes and anecodotes, neatly organized into various sections.  Its where I steal alot of mine from.

[Anonymous]

Government is a semantic hallucination

[East Coast Hustle]

so are unregistered guests.

[Cain]

Yo momma is a semantic illusion!

[Ben]

"A nation never fails but by suicide."  -Ralph Waldo Emerson

[East Coast Hustle]

that's a good one too...unfortunately, as much as I have been bitching about how much I HATED SW:3 Revenge of the Emofags, I gotta say there was one line in that movie that is one of the best lines I've heard in any movie (or in real life for that matter)...


SPOILER ALERT!!!!












in the scene where Palpatine is pulling the old "Hitler at the end of the Weimar Republic" routine, Padme (in the only decent 5 seconds of acting in Natalie Portman's entire career) turns to one of the other senators and says "so this is how liberty dies...to thunderous applause."

[agent compassion]

So - I'm guessing you didn't like Ep 3 then.



Hm.

[East Coast Hustle]

you didn't read my review?

you know where to find it.

[agent compassion]

Actually, I just read it a minute ago.    I was being sarcastic before.

I'm amazed that some SW people thought the first Anakin(from Phantom) was cute and stuff. I thought he was an excellent argument for birth control, personally. Gah. Child actors annoy me. There are only two movies I've seen recently with good child acting in them - "Meet the Fockers" and "A Series of Unfortunate Events" - both kids were too young to talk or have oh-so-"adorable" gap-tooth smiles, so maybe that's why.

[Cain]

I actually remember reading that SW3 line in a review (Slate magazine I think) and thinking, "damn, there actually was one good scriptwriter".

Here are a few from the above link I put in.

"When privacy is outlawed, only outlaws will have privacy."
,Äî anonymous

"What though the field be lost?
All is not lost; th,Äô unconquerable will,
And study of revenge, immortal hate,
And courage never to submit or yield."
,Äî Milton, from Paradise Lost

"The state calls its own violence law, but that of the individual crime."
,Äî Max Stirner

Such words as peace, freedom, democracy will be so
twisted and distorted that the younger generation will no longer know what they really mean."
,Äî Major H. von Dach, from Total Resistance (p. 135)

"You can either have Republic or Empire, but you cannot have both."
,Äî James Madison

"The hidden hand of the market will never work without a hidden fist."
,Äî Thomas Friedman

"Armchair warriors often fail,
And we,Äôve been poisoned by these fairy tales . . ."
,Äî from "The End of the Innocence" by Don Henley

[Great Teacher Largo]

"Government is three-fourths parasitic and one-forth inept bungling."
-RAH

"Government is a neccessary evil.  But just because an evil is neccessary does not make it a good."
-RAH

[LMNO]

Scribe, you had me, until you quoted Don Fucking Henley.

[Slarti]

is RAH robert heinlen?

[Great Teacher Largo]

is RAH robert heinlen?

Yes.  Robert Anson Heinlein.