May George Bush drink the blood of every man, woman and child in Iraq!
- Borat, Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan
Archive for November, 2006
If I were to suggest that between the Earth and Mars there is a china teapot revolving about the sun in an elliptical orbit, nobody would be able to disprove my assertion provided I were careful to add that the teapot is too small to be revealed even by our most powerful telescopes. But if I were to go on to say that, since my assertion cannot be disproved, it is intolerable presumption on the part of human reason to doubt it, I should rightly be thought to be talking nonsense. If, however, the existence of such a teapot were affirmed in ancient books, taught as the sacred truth every Sunday, and instilled into the minds of children at school, hesitation to believe in its existence would become a mark of eccentricity and entitle the doubter to the attentions of the psychiatrist in an enlightened age or of the Inquisitor in an earlier time.
- Bertrand Russell
“We must keep him from the one thing that can mean victory,” said Goodgulf. “We must keep from him the Great Ring!” “And what is this ring?” said Frito, eyeing the possible exits from the hole. “Cease thy eyeing of possible exits and I will tell thee,” Goodgulf reprimanded the frightened boggie.
- Bored of the Rings, Harvard Lampoon
If a man sets out to hate all the miserable creatures he meets, he will not have much energy left for anything else; whereas he can despise them, one and all, with the greatest ease.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
Of liberty I would say that, in the whole plentitude of its extent, it is unobstructed action according to our will. But rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add “within the limits of the law” because law is often but the tyrant’s will, and always so when it violates the rights of the individual.
- Thomas Jefferson
Selfishness: what a real compliment is like
Published by 1 year, 5 months ago in Books, Novelists and Philosophers. 0 CommentsAnd so I didn’t come here to do you a favor or because I felt sorry for you or because you need a job pretty badly. I came for a simple, selfish reason — the same reason that makes a man choose the cleanest food he can find. It’s a law of survival, isn’t it? — to seek the best. I didn’t come for your sake. I came for mine.
- Howard Roark, The Fountainhead, Ayn Rand
And when the hourglass has run out, the hourglass of temporality, when the noise of secular life has grown silent and its restless or ineffectual activism has come to an end, when everything around you is still, as it is in eternity, then eternity asks you and every individual in these millions and millions about only one thing: whether you have lived in despair or not.
- Soren Kierkegaard, The Sickness Unto Death
Homer’s wisdom: picking the wrong religion
Published by 1 year, 5 months ago in TV series. 0 CommentsAnd what if we’ve picked the wrong religion? Every week, we’re just making God madder and madder!
- Homer Simpson, The Simpsons
Like all religions, the Faith of the Invisible Pink Unicorns is based upon both logic and faith. We have faith that they are pink; we logically know that they are invisible because we can’t see them.
- Steve Eley
Mr. Banks: I feel a surge of deep satisfaction / Much as a king astride his noble steed - thank you. When I return from daily strife, to hearth and wife / How pleasant is the life I lead.
Mrs. Banks: Dear, it’s about the children.
Mr. Banks: Yes, yes, yes. I run my home precisely on schedule / At 6:01 I march through my door / My slippers, sherry and pipe are due at 6:02 / Consistent is the life I lead
Mrs. Banks: George, they’re missing.
Mr. Banks: Splendid. Splendid. It’s grand to be an Englishman in 1910 / King Edward’s on the throne it’s the age of men / I’m the lord of my castle the sovereign, the liege / I treat my subjects, servants children, wife with a firm but gentle hand, noblesse oblige. / It’s 6:03 and the heirs to my dominion / Are scrubbed and tubbed and adequately fed / And so I’ll pat them on the head and send them off to bed Ah, lordly is the life I lead. Winifred, where are the children?
Mrs. Banks: They’re not here, dear.
Mr. Banks: What? Well, of course they’re here! Where else would they be?
- Mary Poppins
Don Diego: You should not trade something like that for a mere glass of whiskey.
Alejandro: Why not? You think I could get two?
- The Mask of Zorro
I walked in a desert.
And I cried,
“Ah, God, take me from this place!”
A voice said, “It is no desert.”
I cried, “Well, But –
The sand, the heat, the vacant horizon.”
A voice said, “It is no desert.”
- Stephen Crane, The Black Riders and Other Lines
Pure evil: the insistence on always doing right as "vanity"
Published by 1 year, 5 months ago in Books, Novelists and Philosophers. 0 CommentsThat’s the conceit I’m talking about — the idea that it matters who’s right or wrong. It’s the most insufferable form of vanity, this insistence on always doing right. How do you know what’s right? How can anyone ever know it? It’s nothing but a delusion to flatter your own ego and to hurt other people by flaunting your superiority over them.
- Lillian Rearden, Atlas Shrugged, Ayn Rand
The right thing at the right time ain’t easy…
Published by 1 year, 5 months ago in Philosophers and Scientists. 0 CommentsAnybody can become angry - that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way - that is not within everybody’s power and is not easy.
- Aristotle
But for three years I had roses
Published by 1 year, 5 months ago in Comic books and Movies. 0 CommentsIt is strange that my life should end in such a terrible place, but for three years I had roses and apologized to no one.
- Valerie, V for Vendetta
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