OK, let's have a "Quotes" thread!

The landlords didn't have any choice as they were being told to export or lose the land.

If, in the opinion of the people, distribution or modification of the constitutional powers be in any particular wrong, let it be corrected by an amendment in the way which the Constitution designates. But let there be no change by usurpation; for though this, in one instance, may be the instrument of good, it is the customary weapon by which free governments are destroyed. The precedent must always greatly overbalance in permanent evil any partial or transient benefit which the use can at any time yield.– George Washington, Farewell Address [September 26, 1796]

Divide et impera!

Words evolve "if nothing else" we are all atheist or believe in every conceivable——future—present and past "gods..." orelse the world is imperfect‽ ;p

There must be somebody there, because somebody must have said "Nobody."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j21f7aeTrbc

Duality or irony, which would you prefer?

If you don't understand the question, are you meant to...

..[QUOTE]cray cray[/QUOTE]..

Thus, what job do you think a bigot would naturally gravitate to in order to exercise his bigotry? There is only one job in America where a bigot can exercise his bigotry to his hearts content and even be thanked and praised for it. He can become a cop, a job that enables bigots to arbitrarily stop blacks whenever the bigot wants, and humiliate, abuse, and even kill them with impunity. And in the process get praised and thanked for helping win the war on drugs or establishing law and order in the community.-Jacob G. Hornberger

Dennis Weaver: "There will come a time ... when civilized people will look back in horror on our generation and the ones that preceded it — the idea that we should eat other living things running around on four legs, that we should raise them just for the purpose of killing them! The people of the future will say “meat-eaters!” in disgust and regard us in the same way we regard cannibals and cannibalism."

Every collectivist revolution rides in on a Trojan horse of "Emergency." It was a tactic of Lenin, Hitler, and Mussolini. In the collectivist sweep over a dozen minor countries of Europe, it was the cry of the men striving to get on horseback. And "Emergency" became the justification of the subsequent steps. This technique of creating emergency is the greatest achievement that demagoguery attains. The invasion of New Deal Collectivism was introduced by this same Trojan Horse.– Herbert Hoover

Of more worth is one honest man to society and in the sight of God, than all the crowned ruffians that ever lived.– Thomas Paine

in the sight of gods

makes the mess "we" got...

In truth, even if they have an imperfect insight into their own methods, I still slightly mistrust writers of fiction who are assured literary critics; it makes me suspect that they favour the word over the world it should describe. Such scribes fall victim too easily to the solecism of equating style with morality. Will Self

"I once met a man paranoid of dying. So I shot him."

Mark Brandon Read / AKA Chopper, from Australia.

Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they're not after you.

some graffiti, 1990s