By the most brutal methods of terrorism, a regime sought to maintain an existence that was condemned by the overwhelming majority of its people...I have tried to persuade the responsible authorities that it is impossible for a great nation, because it is unworthy of it, to stand by and watch millions belonging to a great, an ancient civilized people be denied rights by their government... I have endeavoured to find some way to alleviate a tragic fate. One agreement was signed only to be broken. I then tried a second time to bring about an understanding. A few weeks later, we were forced to the conclusion that the government [of Austria] had no intention of carrying out this agreement in the spirit that had inspired it, but in order to create an excuse. I have determined, therefore, to place the help of our country at the service of these millions. Since this morning, our soldiers are on the march across all of Austria's frontiers."
-- Adolf Hitler, March 12, 1938, justifying the German invasion of Austria.
"We have no interest in oppressing other people. We are not moved by hatred against any other nation. We bear no grudge. I know how grave a thing war is. I wanted to spare our people such an evil. It is not so much the country [of Czechoslovakia]; it is rather its leader [Dr. Edward Benes]. He has led a reign of terror. He has hurled countless people into the profoundest misery. Through his continuous terrorism, he has succeeded in reducing millions of his people to silence. The Czech maintenance of a tremendous military arsenal can only be regarded as a focus of danger. We have displayed a truly unexampled patience, but I am no longer willing to remain inactive while this madman ill-treats millions of human beings."
-- Adolf Hitler, April 14, 1939, justifying the German invasion of Czechoslovakia.
"The wave of appalling terrorism against the [minority] inhabitants of Poland, and the atrocities that have been taking place in that country are terrible for the victims, but intolerable for a Great Power which has been expected to remain a passive onlooker. We will not continue to tolerate the persecution of the minority, the killing of many, and their forcible removal under the most cruel conditions. I see no way by which I can induce the government of Poland to adopt a peaceful solution. But I should despair of any honourable future for my own people if we were not, in one way or another, to solve this question."
-- Adolf Hitler, August 23, 1939, justifying the German invasion of Poland.
This time you've really got something it's such a clever idea
But it doesn't mean it's good 'cause you found it at the library
Yes they were smart but they are dead
And you're repeating all that they said
You know it don't make you clever like you thought it would
-- "Dead Quote Olympics", The Hives
Oh, I was told by a knight of the sun,
That wisdom could set people free
-- "Drop in the Sea", Kula Shaker
The sin of property
We do disdain
No man has any right to buy and sell
The earth for private gain
By theft and murder
They took the land
Mow everywhere the walls
Spring up at their command
-- "The World Turned Upside Down", Billy Bragg
I’m shaking, I shake the spear before you’re eyes
Well if you know you’re history, you will read between lines
If you’re waiting for a vision, to illuminate you’re mind
To leave this world of misery, to leave it all behind
-- "Grateful When You're Dead", Kula Shaker
They use their tongues to decieve, the venom of
snakes is under their lips, and their mouths are
full of bitterness and curses, and in their
paths nothing but ruin and misery, and the fear
of God is not before their eyes. They have taken
the hearts and minds of our leaders. They have
recruited the rich and the powerful, and they
have blinded us to the truth. Our human spirit
is corrupted. Why do we worship greed? Because
outside the limit of our sight, feeding off us,
perched on top of us, from birth to death, are
our owners, our owners, they have us, they
control us, they are our masters. Wake up!
They're all around you, all about you.
-- The Street Preacher in John Carpenter's "They
Live"
The Catholic and the Communist are alike in
assuming that an opponent cannot be both honest
and intelligent.
-- George Orwell
*Sun can’t bribe George to come out of his £1/4m
villa on the Algarve*
Traitor George Galloway refused to talk to the
Sun at his Portugal hideaway yesterday - even
after we offered him a tempting wad of 50,000
Iraqi dinars.
-- "The Sun", 23 April, 2003
...many blacks wonder whether black civil rights
and abortion fit so neatly together. Black
pregnancies have historically been the target of
social engineers such as Margaret Sanger, founder
of Planned Parenthood. Sanger was convinced that
blacks, Jews, Eastern Europeans, and other
non-Aryan groups were detracting from the creative
intellect and social potential of America, and she
wanted those groups' numbers reduced...
-- Greg Keath, in the "Wall Street Journal",
27/9/89
You burden me with your questions
You'd have me tell no lies
You're always asking what it's all about
But don't listen to my replies
You say to me I don't talk enough
But when I do I'm a fool
These times I've spent, I've realized
I'm going to shoot through
And leave you
-- "Unbelievable", EMF
Course, it's well known that Shakespeare didn't
really exist. And that if he did, he was lots of
people. And they were all women, and that all
his plays were written by Alan Bleasdale. And
that Shakespeare shot Kennedy, and that Lee
Harvey Oswald was nothing but a pansy. They
don't put that on Newsnight, though, do they?
-- Hugh Laurie, "A Bit of Fry and Laurie"
In order to be at one with the Static Cosmos, one must achieve a
state of supreme stillness.
This state is known as Apathy.
The word APATHY derives from the Atlantean. A-PATH-Y.
A meaning A. PATH meaning PATH. And Y being an abbreviation of WHY.
Quite literally A PATH TO THE MEANING WHY.
-- Robert Rankin, "The Book of Ultimate Truths"
For every one who does not confess that Jesus Christ has come in
the flesh is antichrist; and whosoever does not confess the
testimony of the cross, is a devil, and whosoever perverteth the
oracles of the Lord (to serve) his own lusts, and saith there is
neither resurrection nor judgment, this man is a first-born of
Satan.
-- St. Polycarp
O deliver not the soul of thy turtledove unto the multitude of the
wicked: forget not the congregation of thy poor for ever.
Have respect unto the covenant: for the dark places of the earth are
full of the habitations of cruelty.
O let not the oppressed return ashamed: let the poor and needy praise thy name.
-- Psalm 74:19-21
The poor of England have remained silent too long.
[...] The blade of a tyrant is dull and flat, like
its owner.
-- Hugh Laurie, "A Bit of Fry and Laurie"
Well, we all make mistakes, as the Dalek said
climbing off the dustbin.
-- Jasper Carrott
If we need an atheist for a debate, I go to the
philosophy department. The physics department isn't
much use.
-- Robert Griffiths
'Interesting censorship report on public opinion,
as shown in letters. There is no frenzied fury
against the Germans, but much cold and reasoned
hatred.... There is no sign of bad morale, and
little wish for peace at any price, but it is
noteworthy that discouraged and defeatist women
outnumber men by two to one.'
-- Sir Jack Colville, June 6, 1940, quoted in
FINEST HOUR, by Tim Clayton & Phil Craig,
page 156
never give in, never give in, never, never,
never, never-in nothing, great or small, large or
petty - never give in except to convictions of
honour and good sense. Never yield to force; never
yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the
enemy.
-- Winston Churchill, 29 October, 1941
...but as records of courts and justice are
admissible, it can easily be proved that powerful
and malevolent magicians once existed and were a
scourge to mankind. The evidence (including
confession) upon which certain women were convicted
of witchcraft and executed was without a flaw; it
is still unimpeachable. The judges' decisions
based on it were sound in logic and in law.
Nothing in any existing court was ever more
thoroughly proved than the charges of witchcraft
and sorcery for which so many suffered death. If
there were no witches, human testimony and human
reason are alike destitute of value.
-- Ambrose Bierce
Among all savage beasts, none is found so harmful
as woman.
-- St. John Chrysostom
I definitely want Brooklyn to be christened, but I
don't know into what religion yet.
-- DAVID BECKHAM
"Men cling passionately to old traditions and
display intense reluctance to modify customary
modes of behavior, as innovators at all times have
found to their cost. The dead-weight of
conservatism, largely a lazy and cowardly distaste
for the strenuous and painful activity of real
thinking, has undoubtedly retarded human
progress..."
-- V. Gordon Childe, Man Makes Himself, p. 31.
CONSERVATISM is our opposition, But I am in considerable sympathy with conservatives. I am often lazy, myself.
It's evenings, when I'm somewhat played out, when I'm most likely to be most conservative. Everything that is highest and noblest in my composition is most pronounced when I'm not good for much. I may be quite savage, mornings; but, as my energy plays out, I become nobler and nobler, and lazier, and conservativer. Most likely my last utterance will be a platitude, if I've been dying long enough. If not, I shall probably laugh.
-- Charles Fort
Now when I was at school we had real headmasters.
Not clever left-wing scholars in oh-so-smart
Trotskyite sandals and Stalinist trousers. Proper,
straight-down the-line honest-to-goodness
schoolmasters. They didn't indoctrinate me with a
lot of left-wing crap-trap. They indoctrinated me
with a lot of right-wing crap-trap. They may have
stroked my thighs slightly more than is considered
fashionable these days, but they were proper
schoolmasters.
-- Stephen Fry, "A Bit of Fry and Laurie"
Now, some of the younger people watching me here on
this programme tonight might think that there is
something amusing or ridiculous in the words of
that grand old hymn, our own Great British National
anthem. I happen to find such people sick,
disgusting, degraded and enormously limp-making in
a sexual sense.
There is nothing arousing at all about people who
can mock and sneer at simple love of country,
nothing to make the loins twitch and quiver about
the kind of hooligan who can despoil our flag. The
sort of cynical, atheistic, unpatriotic yoboiks who
hold nothing sacred have no power at all to bring
me to a proud stand.
-- Stephen Fry, "Patriotism"
I travelled among unknown men, In lands beyond the sea;
Nor, England, did I know 'til then, What love I bore to thee!
'Tis past, that melancholy dream - Nor will I quit thy shore
A second time, for I still seem, To love thee more and more.
-- "Lucy", The Divine Comedy
Some of the biggest men in the U. S., in the field
of commerce and manufacturing, are afraid of
somebody, are afraid of something. They know that
there is a power somewhere so organized, so subtle,
so watchful, so interlocked, so complete, so
pervasive, that they had better not speak above
their breath when they speak in condemnation of it.
-- Woodrow Wilson
"A working knowledge of occult science...is
indispensable to UFO investigation."
-- Trevor James, FSR Vol. 8, No. 1
One night, probably in 1880, John Swinton, then
the preeminent New York journalist, was the guest
of honour at a banquet given him by the leaders
of his craft. Someone who knew neither the press
nor Swinton offered a toast to the independent
press. Swinton outraged his colleagues by
replying:
"There is no such thing, at this date of the
world's history, in America, as an independent
press. You know it and I know it.
There is not one of you who dares to write your
honest opinions, and if you did, you know
beforehand that it would never appear in print. I
am paid weekly for keeping my honest opinion out
of the paper I am connected with. Others of you
are paid similar salaries for similar things, and
any of you who would be so foolish as to write
honest opinions would be out on the streets
looking for another job. If I allowed my honest
opinions to appear in one issue of my paper,
before twenty-four hours my occupation would be
gone.
"The business of the journalists is to destroy
the truth, to lie outright, to pervert, to
vilify, to fawn at the feet of mammon, and to
sell his country and his race for his daily
bread. You know it and I know it, and what folly
is this toasting an independent press? We are the
tools and vassals of rich men behind the scenes.
We are the jumping jacks, they pull the strings
and we dance. Our talents, our possibilities and
our lives are all the property of other men. We
are intellectual prostitutes."
-- (Source: Labor's Untold Story, by Richard O.
Boyer and Herbert M. Morais, published by United
Electrical, Radio & Machine Workers of America,
NY, 1955/1979.)
Libraries gave us power
Then work came and made us free
What price now for a shallow piece
of dignity.
-- "Design for Life", Manic Street Preachers
So geographers, in Afric maps,
With savage pictures fill their gaps,
And o’er unhabitable downs
Place elephants for want of towns.
-- Johnathon Swift, "Poetry, a Rhapsody."
She who bites the hand that feeds her
will lick the boot that kicks her.
(paraphrase of a remark by Eric Hoffer,
author of _The True Believer_)
-- "Society", soc.men
Feminists do not care about women.
The only reason why they came after women
is because it is easier to make women
hate men than it is to make men hate women.
-- Amber Pawlik, "Gender Healing: Seeing Bees,
Not the Swarm"
http://mensnewsdaily.com/archive/p/pawlik/03/pawlik092803.htm
You are pure, you are snow
We are the useless sluts that they mould
Rock n roll is our epiphany
Culture, alienation, boredom and despair
-- Manic Street Preachers, "Little Baby Nothing"
This country was founded on the principle that the primary role of government is to protect property from the majority, and so it remains.
-- Noam Chomsky
I tell you it's dis-information
That keeps us all in our station
You tell me that I'm confused
Well I tell you that we're all used
-- "I Have No Answers", the Levellers
On Usenet I always used to have a song quote ready, but alas I don't listen to as much music now so they have all slipped my mind. I watch more films now. Not so good for quoting.
What bothers me is the contempt with which feminists
treat men and boys. "What woman in her right mind
would want to take one of these yobs into her home?"
asked Sue Slipman when she was director of the (UK)
National Council for One Parent Families. Typical.
Rosalind Coward, "The Feminist Who Fights for the Boys"
published in _The Times_
posted by Philip Lewis in alt.feminism; 20 June 1999
http://groups.google.com/group/alt.feminism/msg/122600d03a3f1976
The following:
Everyone in the office is welcome to join the group going to the Columbus Theater tonight. Meet in the lobby at 8:30. The films are "Blue Jennifer" and "Hot Coed Cheerleaders".
A highly intelligent man should take a primitive woman. Imagine if on top of everything else, I had a woman who interfered with my work.
-- Adolf Hitler
A male gynecologist is like an auto mechanic who has never owned a car.
-- Carrie Snow ,p>
"A male mathematician is someone who can count to twenty-one without unzipping his fly." - Unknown
A little bit of rape is good for a man's soul.
-- Norman Mailer ,p>
A man who cannot seduce men cannot save them either.
-- Soren Kierkegaard
A perfectly honest woman, a woman who never flatters, who never manages, who never cajoles, who never conceals, who never uses her eyes, who never speculates on the effect which she produces, who never is conscious of unspoken admiration, what a monster, I say, would such a female be!
-- Thackeray
A proper wife should be as obedient as a slave... The female is a female by virtue of a certain lack of qualities -- a natural defectiveness.
-- Aristotle
A woman's a woman until the day she dies, but a man's only a man as long as he can.
-- Moms Mabley
A society in which women are taught anything but the management of a family, the care of men, and the creation of the future generation is a society which is on its way out.
-- L. Ron Hubbard
A woman employs sincerity only when every other form of deception has failed.
-- Scott
A woman must be a cute, cuddly, naive little thing--tender, sweet, and stupid.
-- Adolf Hitler
A woman occasionally is quite a serviceable substitute for masturbation. It takes an abundance of imagination, to be sure.
-- Karl Kraus, "Die Fackel"
A woman takes off her claim to respect along with her garments.
-- Herodotus
A woman who is guided by the head and not by the heart is a social pestilence: she has all the defects of the passionate and affectionate woman, with none of her compensations; she is without pity, without love, without virtue, without sex.
-- Balzac
A woman who is unfaithful deserves to be shot.
-- Pancho Villa
Among all savage beasts, none is found so harmful as woman.
-- St. John Chrysostom, 304-407.
And do you not think that each of you women is an Eve? The judgement of God upon your sex endures today; and with it invariably endures your position of criminal at the bar of justice.
-- Tertullian, second-century Christian writer
With her body, woman is more sincere than man; but with her mind she lies. And when she lies, she does not believe herself.
-- Tolstoy
With women, I've got a long bamboo pole with a leather loop on the end of it. I slip the loop around their necks so they can't get away or come too close. Like catching snakes.
-- Marlon Brando
Woman is generally so bad that the difference between a good and a bad woman scarcely exists.
-- Tolstoy
Women are nothing but machines for producing children.
-- Napoleon
Women of genius commonly have masculine faces, figures and manners. In transplanting brains to an alien soil God leaves a little of the original earth clinging to the roots.
-- Ambrose Bierce
Dames lie about anything -- just for practice.
-- Raymond Chandler
Do you want to know what's ahead for you, in your happiness at home, your business success? Here's a telling test: Look in the mirror. Is your skin smooth and lovely, your hair gleaming, your make-up glamorous? Are you slender enough for your height? Do you stand erect, confident? Yes? Then you are on your way to success as a woman.
-- Ladies' Home Journal, 1947 advertisement
With all the talent around, it's sort of amazing that a woman could be up here with us.
-- Ralph Kiner, on introducing an award winner
Contemporary American feminism's simplistic psychology is illustrated by the new cliche of the date-rape furor: "`No' always means `no'." Will we ever graduate from the Girl Scouts? "No" has always been, and always will be, part of the dangerous alluring courtship ritual of sex and seduction, observable even in the animal kingdom.
-- Camille Paglia, NY Times, Dec. 14 1990, Op Ed.
In childhood a woman must be subject to her father; in youth to her husband; when her husband is dead, to her sons. A woman must never be free of subjugation.
-- The Hindu Code of Manu
In the highest society, as well as in the lowest, woman is merely an instrument of pleasure.
-- Tolstoy
It is only the man whose intellect is clouded by his sexual impulse that could give the name of the fair sex to that undersized, narrow-shouldered, broad-hipped, and short-legged race.
-- Schopenhauer
It seems to me that nearly every woman I know wants a man who knows how to love with authority. Women are simple souls who like simple things, and one of the simplest is one of the simplest to give. ... Our family airedale will come clear across the yard for one pat on the head. The average wife is like that.
-- Episcopal Bishop James Pike
No is no negative in a woman's mouth.
-- Sidney
Scratch the average female and you'll find a purring bundle... at the ready to love and honor, bake a torte and still produce quintuplets.
-- Edgar Berman
Sensible and responsible women do not want to vote.
-- Grover Cleveland, 1905
Some women should be beaten regularly, like gongs. -- Noel Coward
That Xanthippe's husband should have become so great a philosopher is remarkable. Amid all the scolding, to be able to think! But he could not write: that was impossible. Socrates has not left us a single book.
-- Heine
The man-hating woman, like the cold woman, is largely imaginary. She is simply a woman who has done her best to snare a man and has failed.
-- Norton
The Queen is most anxious to enlist every one who can speak or write to join in checking this mad, wicked folly of "Woman's Rights", with all its attendant horrors, on which her poor feeble sex is bent, forgetting every sense of womanly feeling and propriety. Lady ____ ought to get a good whipping. It is a subject which makes the Queen so furious that she cannot contain herself. God created men and women different -- then let them remain each in their own position.
-- Letter to Sir Theodore Martin, 29 May 1870, from Queen Victoria
Were there no women, men might live like gods.
-- Thomas Dekker
"The statesmen will invent cheap lies, putting blame upon the nation that is attacked, and every man will be glad of those conscience-soothing falsities, and will diligently study them, and refuse to examine any refutations of them; and thus he will by and by convince himself that the war is just, and will thank God for the better sleep he enjoys after this process of grotesque self-deception.
-- "Chronicle of Young Satan" Mark Twain"
When I have one foot in the grave I will tell the truth about women. I shall tell it, jump into my coffin, pull the lid over me, and say, "Do what you like now."
-- Tolstoy
And see here or here.
"The true equation is 'democracy' = government by world financiers...The main mark of modern governments is that we do not know who governs, de facto any more than de jure. We see the politician and not his backer; still less the backer of the backer; or what is most important of all, the banker of the backer. Enthroned above all, in a manner without parallel in all past, is the veiled prophet of finance, swaying all men living by a sort of magic, and delivering oracles in a language not understanded [sic] of the people."
-- J.R.R. Tolkien, Candour Magazine, 13 July 1956, p. 12
Money speaks for money, the Devil for his own. -- Some Billy Bragg song.
See also here.
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