* add evil apathy quote

[lib.git] / signature_stuff / quote.txt

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@@ -536,8 +536,8 @@ have exhausted all other possibilities.
 As nightfall does not come at once, neither does oppression. In both
 instances, there is a twilight when everything remains seemingly
 unchanged. And it is in such twilight that we all must be most aware
 As nightfall does not come at once, neither does oppression. In both
 instances, there is a twilight when everything remains seemingly
 unchanged. And it is in such twilight that we all must be most aware

-of change in the air however slight lest we become unwitting victims
-of the darkness.
+of change in the air -- however slight -- lest we become unwitting
+victims of the darkness.

  -- William O. Douglas
 %
 One day I put instant coffee in my microwave oven and almost went back
  -- William O. Douglas
 %
 One day I put instant coffee in my microwave oven and almost went back


@@ -726,8 +726,30 @@ but if you have to move your best friend's body
 you're on your own
  -- a softer world #242
     http://www.asofterworld.com/index.php?id=242
 you're on your own
  -- a softer world #242
     http://www.asofterworld.com/index.php?id=242

-

 %
 It was a very familiar voice. [...] It was a voice you could have used
 to open a bottle of whine.
  -- Terry Pratchett _The Last Continent_ p270
 %
 It was a very familiar voice. [...] It was a voice you could have used
 to open a bottle of whine.
  -- Terry Pratchett _The Last Continent_ p270

+%
+The carbon footprint of a single human being is enormous.
+If you think about it, your honour,
+I'm an environmentalist.
+ -- a softer world #283
+    http://www.asofterworld.com/index.php?id=283
+%
+We must realize that today's Establishment is the New George III.
+Whether it will continue to adhere to his tactics, we do not know. If
+it does, the redress, honored in tradition, is also revolution.
+ -- William O. Douglas _Points of Rebellion_
+%
+"Them as can do has to do for them as can't. And someone has to speak
+up for them as have no voices."
+ -- Grandma Aching in _The Wee Free Men_ by Terry Pratchett p227
+%
+But if, after all, we are on the wrong track, what then? Only
+dissapointed human hopes, nothing more. And even if we perish, what
+will it matter in the endless cycles of eternity?
+ -- Fridtjof Nansen _Farthest North_ p152
+%
+There is no more concentrated form of evil
+than apathy.