X-Git-Url: https://git.donarmstrong.com/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=signature_stuff%2Fquote.txt;h=86b8471fc52e3343d65a8f723d39cbaab2dd3007;hb=86ee9c722806173be6a343df8e435b5c705a42bc;hp=c462e57d3da007f95b2e7739e8141745b099e9ea;hpb=1dd3f1e30c2de0bfbfd8a4bce5a58b23f714d901;p=lib.git diff --git a/signature_stuff/quote.txt b/signature_stuff/quote.txt index c462e57..86b8471 100644 --- a/signature_stuff/quote.txt +++ b/signature_stuff/quote.txt @@ -736,3 +736,30 @@ 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. +% +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" +% +Let us chat together a moment, my friend. There are still several +hours until dawn, and I have the whole day to sleep. + -- Nosferatu in _Nosferatu (1922)_ +