Herein are memorable quotations from a wide variety of sources.
Democracy
Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.
Source: – H.L. Mencken
The Crisis
Management By Crisis requires a[ny] present crisis as the vehicle for control. It’s just a matter of selling something as a present crisis. That is to say, it matters less which shoe drops, as long as a shoe drops.
Source: – Harry Hobbes
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Source: The traditional test for the teletype character set.
All The Facts
Sometimes paranoia is just having all the facts.
Source: – William S. Burroughs
Entitlement
Everyone is entitled to their own opinion, but not their own facts.
Source: – Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan
Preference
Men prefer a false promise to a flat refusal.
Source: – Quintus Cicero
Daily Trivia
In the absence of clearly-defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily trivia until ultimately we become enslaved by it.
Source: – Robert A. Heinlein
On Propaganda
The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society. Those who manipulate this unseen mechanism of society constitute an invisible government which is the true ruling power of our country. …We are governed, our minds are molded, our tastes formed, our ideas suggested, largely by men we have never heard of. This is a logical result of the way in which our democratic society is organized. Vast numbers of human beings must cooperate in this manner if they are to live together as a smoothly functioning society. In almost every act of our daily lives, whether in the sphere of politics or business, in our social conduct or our ethical thinking, we are dominated by the relatively small number of persons…who understand the mental processes and social patterns of the masses. It is they who pull the wires which control the public mind.
Source: – Edward Bernays, Propaganda, 1928
No Errors
Nature commits no errors; right and wrong are human categories.
Source: — Pardot Kynes, Arrakis Lectures
Absolute Security
We will bankrupt ourselves in the vain search for absolute security.
Source: -Dwight D. Eisenhower
Nothing Personal…
Nothing personal, and no hard feelings…
Source: – Buck Brannaman talking to a colt he was “starting” as he put significant pressure on the colt to motivate its compliance.
The Need for Freedom
No dictator, no invader, can hold an imprisoned population by force of arms forever. There is no greater power in the universe than the need for freedom. Against that power, governments and tyrants and armies cannot stand. The Centauri learned this lesson once. We will teach it to them again. Though it take a thousand years, we…will…be…free.
Source: – Citizen G’Kar. J. Michael Straczynski’s Babylon 5 Series. 1994.
Strange Creature
Clerk of the Court: “Peter Blood. How do your plead, guilty or not-guilty?”
Dr. Peter Blood: “It’s entirely innocent, I am.”
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Prosecutor: “Did you know that it is against the King’s law to aid, comfort, or succor a rebel?”
Dr. Peter Blood: “I knew only my sacred duty as a physician.”
Prosecutor: “Your sacred duty, you ROGUE, IS TO YOUR KING!”
Dr. Peter Blood: (subdued retort) “I thought it was to my fellow man.”
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Dr. Peter Blood: “What strange creature, must sit on the throne, that lets a man like you deal out his justice.”
Source: – Dr. Peter Blood, the scene in the King’s Court, being condemned as a traitor. Captain Blood, Republic Pictures, 1935.
Bushy Tail
Captain Blood: “Hagthorpe, do we have an English battle flag aboard?”
Hagthorpe: “We have every manner of battle flag, including a lady’s purple petticoat.”
Captain Blood: “Wait. I’ve a better idea: When an English lion sneaks up on French foxes, it does well to wear a bushy tail. Hoist the French flag.”
Source: – Dr. Peter Blood, the climax, at the battle at Port Royal. Captain Blood, Republic Pictures, 1935.
Smooth Explanation
Joel Cairo: “You always have a smooth explanation.”
Sam Spade: “What do you want me to do? Learn to stutter?”
Source: The Maltese Falcon. Republic Pictures. 1941.