| "Perhaps the sentiments contained in the following page, are not yet sufficiently fashionable to procure them general favor; a long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives It a superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defence of custom. But the tumult soon subsides. Time makes more converts than reason." |
| - Thomas Paine - "Common Sense", 1776 |
| "If men are to be precluded from offering their sentiments on a matter which may involve the most serious and alarming consequences that can invite the consideration of mankind, reason is of no use to us; the freedom of speech may be taken away, and dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter." |
| - George Washington |
| "Heresy is what the minority believe; it is the name given by the powerful to the doctrines of the weak." |
| - Robert G. Ingersoll, American lawyer and statesman (1833-1899) |
| "Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich." |
| - Napoleon Bonaparte |
| "I see all this potential, and I see it squandered. Goddammit, an entire generation pumping gas, waiting tables, slaves with white collars. Advertising has us chasing cars and clothes, working jobs we hate so we can buy shit we don't need. We're the middle children of history. No purpose or place. We have no great war, no great depression. Our great war is a spiritual war. Our great depression is our lives. We've all been raised on television to believe that one day we would all be millionaires, movie gods or rock stars, but we won't. We're slowly learning that fact, and we're very, very pissed off." |
| - Tyler Durden (Brad Pitt) in "Fight Club", 1999 |
| "Do you know what makes a human being decent? Fear. And therein lies the problem. None of you has anything to fear anymore. You rest comfortably in seats of inscrutable power, hiding behind your false idol, far from judgement - lives shrouded in secrecy even from one another." |
| - Loki (Matt Damon) in "Dogma", 1999 |
| "The essence of immorality is the tendency to make an exception of one's self." |
| - Jane Addams |
| "People always assume you are as dumb or as smart as they are." |
| - Mark Ahnell |
| "Having a vision without the ability to execute is like having a hallucination." |
| - Stephen Case, Chairman, AOL - Time Warner |
| "The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity." |
| - Harlan Ellison |
| "Never under estimate a mans determination to be free" |
| - William Wallace (Mel Gibson) in "Braveheart", 1995 |
| "How old would you be, if you didn't know how old you were" |
| - Warren Spahn - Milwaukee Braves Pitcher, 1957 Cy Young winner. |
| "A good friend will come and bail you out of jail, but a true friend will be sitting next to you saying 'That was fucking awesome'" |
| - Unknown |
| "You do not yet realize your importance...join me, and together we can rule the galaxy.... Come with me, it is the only way" |
| - Darth Vader to Luke, Empire Strikes Back |
| "If you obey Society's rules, you'll be Society's fools" |
| - Devo |
| "I firmly believe that any man's finest hour - his greatest fulfillment to all he holds dear... is that moment when he has worked his heart out in a good cause and lies exhausted on the field of battle - victorious." |
| - Vince Lombardi (1913 - 1970) |
| "The Taliban used to hang the victim's body in public for four days. We will only hang the body for a short time, say fifteen minutes, after a public execution." |
| - New Afghani Minister of Justice, 2002 |
| "Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph." |
| - Thomas Paine, The American Crisis |
| "Corporations have neither bodies to kick, nor souls to damn" |
| - Andrew Jackson |
| "It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees." |
| - Emiliano Zapata |
| "The more corrupt the state, the more it legislates." |
| - Tacitus |
| "Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever." |
| - Napoleon Bonaparte |
| "Never, never, never believe any war will be smooth and easy, or that anyone who embarks on the strange voyage can measure the tides and hurricanes he will encounter. The statesman who yields to war fever must realize that once the signal is given, he is no longer the master of policy but the slave of unforeseeable and uncontrollable events." |
| - Winston Churchill |
| "In the absence of greatest, pettiness reigns" |
| - Unknown |
| "A drunken man's words are a sober man's thoughts" |
| - Harver's Law |
| "If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail" |
| - Abraham Maslow |
| "You know the world's gone mad when the best rapper is a white guy, the best golfer is a black guy, the tallest guy in the NBA is Chinese, the Swiss hold the America's Cup, France is accusing the USA of arrogance, and the Germans don't want to go to war" |
| - Chris Rock, Circa 2002 |
| "I don't know what to say, really. 3 minutes...to the biggest battle of our professional lives...all comes down to today. Either, we heal, as a team, or we're gonna crumble...inch by inch, play by play... til we're finished. We're in hell right now, gentlemen...believe me... and...we can stay here, get the shit kicked out of us...or... we can fight our way back...into the light...we can climb outta hell...one inch at a time. Now, I can't do it for you...I'm too old. I look around and I see these young faces, and I think... I mean... I've made every wrong choice a middle-aged man can make. I... eh... pissed away all my money, believe it or not... I chased off anyone's who's ever loved me... and lately, I can't even stand the face I see in the mirror. You know, when you get old in life, things get taken from you... that's....that's part of life. But, you only learn that, when you start losing stuff. You find out, life's this game of inches...so is football. Because, in either game, life or football, the margin for error is so small, I mean, one half a step too late, or too early, and you don't quite make it... one half second too slow, too fast, you don't quite catch it... the inches we need are everywhere around us. They're in every break of the game, every minute, every second. On this team, we fight for that inch. On this team, we tear ourselves and everyone else around us, to pieces for that inch. We claw with our fingernails for that inch. Because we know, when we add up all those inches, that's gonna make the fuckin' difference, between winning and losing! Between livin' and dyin'!! I'll tell you this: in any fight... it's the guy who's willing to die, who's gonna win that inch... and I know, if I'm gonna have any life anymore... It's because I'm still willing to fight and die for that inch. Because, that's what living is! The six inches in front of your face!! Now, I can't make you do it. You gotta look at the guy next to you, look into his eyes! Now, I think you're gonna see a guy, who will go that inch with you. You're gonna see a guy, who will sacrifice himself, for this team, because he knows, when it comes down to it, you're gonna do the same for him. That's a team, gentlemen... and, either we heal, NOW, as a team, or we will die... as individuals. That's football, guys... that's all it is. Now, what are you gonna do?" |
| - Coach Tony D'Amato (Al Pacino) in Any Given Sunday, 1999 |