* update prisoner quote

[lib.git] / signature_stuff / quote.txt

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@@ -303,12 +303,13 @@ handcuffed in driving rain waiting for transport to prison.  "If this
 is the way Queen Victoria treats her prisoners," he remarked, "she
 doesn't deserve to have any."
 %
-The sheer ponderousness of the panel's opinion ... refutes its thesis
-far more convincingly than anything I might say. The panel's labored
-effort to smother the Second Amendment by sheer body weight has all
-the grace of a sumo wrestler trying to kill a rattlesnake by sitting
-on it--and is just as likely to succeed.
- -- Alex Kozinski in Silveira V Lockyer
+The sheer ponderousness of the panel's opinion [...] refutes its
+thesis far more convincingly than anything I might say. The panel's
+labored effort to smother the Second Amendment by sheer body weight
+has all the grace of a sumo wrestler trying to kill a rattlesnake by
+sitting on it---and is just as likely to succeed.
+ -- Alex Kozinski, Dissenting in Silveira v. Lockyer
+    (CV-00-00411-WBS p5983-4)
 %
                     EQUAL RIGHTS FOR WOMEN
 Don't be teased or humiliated. See their look of surprise when you
@@ -750,4 +751,26 @@ 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.
+%
+I will not make any deals with you. I've resigned. I will not be
+pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed or numbered. My
+life is my own. I resign.
+ -- Patrick McGoohan as Number 6 in "The Prisoner"
+%
+Where am I? THE VILLAGE. What do you want? INFORMATION. Which side are
+you on? THAT WOULD BE TELLING. WE WANT INFORMATION. INFORMATION.
+INFORMATION. You won't get it! BY HOOK OR BY CROOK, WE WILL. Who are
+you? THE NEW NUMBER 2. Who is Number One? YOU ARE NUMBER SIX. I am not
+a number! I am a free man! HAHAHAHAHAHA.
+ -- Patrick McGoohan as Number 6 with Number 2 in "The Prisoner"
+%
+Let us chat together a moment, my friend. There are still several
+hours until dawn, and I have the whole day to sleep.
+ -- Count Orlock in _Nosferatu (1922)_
+%
+Creativity can be a social contribution, but only in so far
+as society is free to use the results. 
+ -- Richard M Stallman _GNU Manifesto_