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Usage of Quotes 9 By: Brian Webber on 10/21/2001; 5:41 PM Number 9. PING! I'm going to stick to the new format I used for Quotes 8, commenting on some quotes, but not on others. Here we go. "Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely." - Lord Acton, 1887 "It is better that ten guilty persons escape than one innocent suffer." - Sir William Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England This is actually sometimes attributed to Thomas Jefferson, but according to Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, Mr. Blackstone was the original author "I was born a heretic. I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do because I notice it always coincides with their own desires." - Susan B. Anthony You go girl! "A little rebellion now and then is a good thing." - Thomas Jefferson in a letter to James Madison I concur wholeheartedly. We are far too complacent in today's global society. "I am in earnest - I will not equivocate - I will not excuse - I will not retreat a single inch - and I will be heard!" - William Llyod Garrison Couldn't have said it better myself. If ever there was a quote that summed up my personality. "The first casualty when war comes is the truth." - Hiram Johnson in a speech to the U.S. Senate in 1917 What's more depressing? The fact that the statement is true, or the fact that it is now a cliche? "Where observation is concerned, chance favours only the prepared mind." - Louis Pasteur "Religion is a byproduct of fear. For much of human history, it may have been a necessary evil, but why was it more evil than necessary? Isn't killing people in the name of God a pretty good definition of insanity?" - Arthur C. Clarke "Faith is believing something you know ain't true." - Samuel Clemens, a.k.a. Mark Twain Let's be honest. If he were around today instead of back then, he would've been shot down cold by either the Mafia or the CIA. "Cheer up, the worst is yet to come." - Philander Chase Johnson, Shooting Stars "Men are generally more careful of the breed of their horses and dogs than of their children." - William Penn, Some Fruits of Solitude, in Reflections and Maxims relating to the conduct of Humane Life *cough**cough* No comment. "There are one hundred and ninety-three living species of monkeys and apes. One hundred and ninety-two of them are covered with hair. The exception is a naked ape self-named Homo Sapiens." - Desmon Morris in the introduction to The Naked Ape. I actually have not read the book yet. Is it good? "Democracy is only an experiemnt in government, and it has the obvious disadvantage of merely counting the votes instead of weighing them." - Dean Inge, Possible Recovery? "You don't know what I did with the dice though, do you? For all you know, I could have jammed them up his nostrils, head-butted him on the nose and they could have blasted out of his ears. That would've been quite interesting." - Chris Barrie, Red Dwarf That would've been interesting wouldn't it? :-) "Can anything be more absurd than keeping women in a state of ignorance, and yet so vehemently to insist on their resisting temptation?" - Vicesimus Knox, A Vidication of the Rights of Women "You know, the ocean of life is full of swells and not-so-swells and you have to ride them out. You don't need Prozac because somebody flamed you in the X-Files chat room, okay. You don't need Zoloft because Darcel from Solid Gold never answered your fan letter. Your parents fucked you up. Get over it. Let it go. A parent's job is to prepare you for the rest of your life by fucking with your head." - Dennis Miller I've said it before, but it bears repeating. Most if not all of society's ills can be traced back to bad parenting or no parenting at all. However, blaming your parents for your problems when all they did was their best, that is just fucking wrong. "Wild animals never kill for sport. Man is the only one to whom torture and death of his fellow-creature is amusing in itself." - J.A. Froude, Oceana (1886) "We spend nine months trying to get out, and the rest of our lives trying to get back in." - Men's room grafitti Don't know if I agree with that, but it certainly SOUNDS profound to me. "If there is ever another war in Europe, it will come out of some damned silly thing in the Balkans." - Prince Bismarck, 1898. Was also used by Winston Curchill, just two weeks before World War I began. Talk about prophetic! "Some people say 'shoot' instead of 'shit.' They can't fool me, man. 'Shoot' is 'shit' with two o's." - George Carlin You can't fool me either! "I can't stand movies that go back and forth between hard science and the worst kind of pseudoscience. Give me one or the other, OK? But don't base the plot around science and then expect me to suspend scientific disbelief every ten minutes." - Jamie Slashdot, reviewing the movie Mission to Mars No particular reaction is expected. I posted that quote becuase I REALLY, REALLY, REALLY, REALLY, HATED Mission to Mars, almost as much as I hated American Psycho. Coul-could someone please explain that fucking movie to me please? What was the point? Did he kill those people or not? If not, then why the confession? Is he so crazy he only THINKS he's killing people? What? I'm confused dammit! Ow, migraine. "An apology for the Devil: It must be remembered that we have only heard one side of the case. God has written all the books." - Samuel Butler True. How true. Often there are two sides to every story, but only one being told. "You ain't heard nothin' yet folks." - Al Jolson in the first "talkie" film, The Jazz Singer "A stand can be made against invasion by an army; no stand can be made against invasion by an idea." - Victor Hugo, Historie d'un Crime I put that one in bold type because I really wanted it to stick out. "I'm always getting screwed by the system. That's my lot in life. I'm the system's bitch." - Drew Carey, The Drew Carey Show "Living is an illness to which sleep provides relief every sixteen hours. It's a palliative. The remedy is death." - Nicolas-Sebastien Chamfort, Maximes et Pensees (1796) "I don't mind where people make love, so long as they don't do it in the street and frighten the horses." - Mrs. Patrick Campbell. "The broad mass of a nation...will more easily fall victim to a big lie than to a small one." - Adolf Hitler, Mein Kampf A good quote is a good quote, no matter who says it. Yes he was an evil dickweed, but you really can't argue with the logic of the above statement, especially in light of recent so-called scandals. I mean c'mon people. Was the Lewinsky REALLY that big a deal, when say compared, to a FELONY like BREAKING & ENTERING? "Captain, with all due respect... Fuck you... Sir!" - Dustin Hoffman, Outbreak "Absence diminishes commonplace passions and increases great ones, as the wind extingusihes candles and kindles fire." - Duc De La Rochefoucauld, Reflexions ou Sentences et Maximes Morales "Don't steal, the government hates competition." - A bumper sticker "The Christian God can be easily pictured as virtually the same as the many ancient gods of past civilizations. The Christian god is a three headed monster; cruel, evil and capricious. If one wishes to know more of this raging, three headed, beast-like god, one only needs to look at the caliber of the people who say they serve him. They are always of two classes: fools and hypocrites." - Thomas Jefferson "My view is that if there is no evidence for it, then forget about it. An agnostic is somebody who doesn't believe in something until there is evidence for it, so I'm agnostic." - Carl Sagan "Ah well! I am their leader, I really ought to follow them!" - Alexandre Auguste Ledru-Rollin Gee, you think? "Cult: A religion with no political power." - Tom Wolfe "When I was [doing] radio, and I would say anything that was slightly negative towards religion, I got the most hate mail. So, I learned: Religious people can be very mean." - Joy Behar, The View *dismissive grunt* You should see my e-mail accounts trash bin if you wanna talk about mean. I've been called everything from an "AIDS sucking whore" to a "Commie child raper." "The louder he talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons." - Ralph Waldo Emerson >:-) I think we all know who I'm thinking of at this point (Peter) "Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them." - George Orwell, 1984 "I condemn false prophets, I condemn the effort to take away the power of rational decision, to drain people of their free will--and a hell of a lot of money in the bargain. Religions vary in their degree of idiocy, but I reject them all. For most people, religion is nothing more than a substitute for a malfunctioning brain." - Gene Roddenberry "If Christ were here now there is one thing he would not be -- a Christian." - Samuel Clemens, a.k.a. Mark Twain "Man is an embodied paradox, a bundle of contradictions." - Charles Caleb Colton Well, I think you'll all be delighted to know this is going to be my last Usage of Quotes for awhile. I'm going to take a break from this to spend more time working on my Fiction stories.
RE: Usage of Quotes 9 By: Mark Morgan on 4/27/2001; 7:40 AM Honestly? I preferred it when you picked one quote and discussed it at length, rather than these pretty boring quote lists. (In case anyone thinks I'm picking on Brian, I'm not. I've decided to take a more active role as a reader in providing feedback to people's writings. I recommend you all do the same. Beyond just stirring up commentary, the writings here are also an excellent opportunity for workshopping new works.)
RE: Usage of Quotes 9 By: Brian Webber on 4/27/2001; 5:26 PM Well no one was doing any commenting on the previous Quote things. Maybe I should just have the Quotes things removed. But it's a decision I can't take lightly. I'll take some time to consider it.
RE: Usage of Quotes 9 By: Mark Morgan on 4/28/2001; 12:18 AM I don't see any need to remove them, Brian. Sheesh! I'm considering just not giving you any feedback. Just because I'm giving negative feedback, don't take that as a sign to give up. Is it because I'm the webmaster that people are reacting so strongly to any criticism? I'd hate to lose the freedom to give my views on peoples' writings.
RE: Usage of Quotes 9 By: Brian Webber on 4/28/2001; 1:01 AM Whoa! It's not about you buddy boy! I'm saying I was considering pulling Quotes becuase no one has commented on any of them. Jeez.
RE: Usage of Quotes 9 By: Mark Morgan on 4/28/2001; 2:39 PM Glad to hear it's not about me, but just a few points:
RE: Usage of Quotes 9 By: Evan on 4/28/2001; 3:00 PM You make some very good points, most of which I actually agree with, but I wanted to say one opinion I have, religions in of themselves are not really bad, its simply that fanatics take up the cause of their religion to contradict their own rules. Odds are that type of person would be doing the same sort of thing if there were no religions. The religions are only the excuse for the behavior and not the cause.
RE: Usage of Quotes 9 By: Brian Carnell on 4/28/2001; 4:14 PM At 03:55 PM 4/28/2001 -0400, Mark wrote: >Glad to hear it's not about me, but just a few points: > >If everyone pulled something that wasn't commented on there'd be maybe >four things here. >You've posted a metric ton of verbiage here over the past couple of >weeks. You really think people will comment on everything? >In the end, everything is about me. Comment on it? Has anyone had time to actually *read* all of it? I know I haven't.
RE: Usage of Quotes 9 By: Brian Webber on 5/2/2001; 6:43 PM You know you're the first person to really comment on the quotes and my responses to them? Good for you! You should read all 9 of the Usage of Quotes thingees!
RE: Usage of Quotes 9 By: josh luzania on 1/7/2005; 5:49 PM Personally, I doubt that Clemens would be dead if he were still around. Jon Stewart's still alive, isn't he? I guess I'm a fool. I hope I'm a fool anyway. I don't want to be a hyprocrite.
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