Quotes from V for Vendetta.
Evey Hammond: Are you like a... crazy person?
V: I'm quite sure they will say so.
You wear a mask for so long, you forget who you were beneath it.
Creedy: Die! Die! Why won't you die?... Why won't you die?
V: Beneath this mask there is more than flesh. Beneath this mask there is an idea, Mr. Creedy, and ideas are bulletproof.
Evey Hammond: Who are you?
V: Who? Who is but the form following the function of what, and what I am is a man in a mask.
Evey Hammond: Well I can see that.
V: Of course you can. I'm not questioning your powers of observation, I'm merely remarking upon the paradox of asking a masked man who he is.
Evey Hammond: My father was a writer. You would've liked him. He used to say that artists use lies to tell the truth, while politicians use them to cover the truth up.
V: A man after my own heart.
Finch: One thing is true of all governments - their most reliable records are tax records.
V: Would you... dance with me?
Evey Hammond: Now? On the eve of your revolution?
V: A revolution without dancing is a revolution not worth having!
V: People should not be afraid of their governments. Governments should be afraid of their people.
Sutler: I want this country to realize that we stand on the edge of oblivion. I want everyone to remember *why* they need us!
Sutler: What we need right now is a clear message to the people of this country. This message must be read in every newspaper, heard on every radio, seen on every television... I want *everyone* to *remember*, why they *need* us!
Evey Hammond: Where did you get all this stuff?
V: Oh, here and there, mostly from the Ministry of Objectionable Materials.
Evey Hammond: You stole them?
V: Oh, heavens, no. Stealing implies ownership. You can't steal from the censor; I merely reclaimed them.
Evey Hammond: I don't even know what you really look like.
[Evey tries to remove V's mask]
V: [V stops her] Evey, please. There is a face beneath this mask but it's not me. I'm no more that face than I am the muscles beneath it or the bones beneath them.
Evey Hammond: I understand.
V: Thank you.
V: Good evening. Allow me first to apologize for this interruption. I do, like many of you, appreciate the comforts of every day routine- the security of the familiar, the tranquility of repetition. I enjoy them as much as any bloke. But in the spirit of commemoration, thereby those important events of the past usually associated with someone's death or the end of some awful bloody struggle, a celebration of a nice holiday, I thought we could mark this November the 5th, a day that is sadly no longer remembered, by taking some time out of our daily lives to sit down and have a little chat. There are of course those who do not want us to speak. I suspect even now, orders are being shouted into telephones, and men with guns will soon be on their way. Why? Because while the truncheon may be used in lieu of conversation, words will always retain their power. Words offer the means to meaning, and for those who will listen, the enunciation of truth. And the truth is, there is something terribly wrong with this country, isn't there? Cruelty and injustice, intolerance and oppression. And where once you had the freedom to object, to think and speak as you saw fit, you now have censors and systems of surveillance coercing your conformity and soliciting your submission. How did this happen? Who's to blame? Well certainly there are those more responsible than others, and they will be held accountable, but again truth be told, if you're looking for the guilty, you need only look into a mirror. I know why you did it. I know you were afraid. Who wouldn't be? War, terror, disease. There were a myriad of problems which conspired to corrupt your reason and rob you of your common sense. Fear got the best of you, and in your panic you turned to the now high chancellor. He promised you order, he promised you peace, and all he demanded in return was your silent, obedient consent. Last night I sought to end that silence. Last night I destroyed the Old Bailey, to remind this country of what it has forgotten.
[end]
There is enough in the world for everyone's need; there is not enough for everyone's greed.
When the people fear their government, there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there is liberty. -Thomas Jefferson
"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
— Benjamin Franklin
"Security without liberty is called prison.
"— Benjamin Franklin
"If all printers were determined not to print anything till they were sure it would offend nobody, there would be very little printed."
— Benjamin Franklin
"It is the first responsibility of every citizen to question authority."
— Benjamin Franklin
"Democracy must be something more than two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner.
"— James Bovard
"Justice will not be served until those who are unaffected are as outraged as those who are."
— Benjamin Franklin
"Many people die at twenty five and aren't buried until they are seventy five."
— Benjamin Franklin
"Certainty? In this world nothing is certain but death and taxes."
— Benjamin Franklin
"When you are finished changing, you're finished."
— Benjamin Franklin
"The person who deserves most pity is a lonesome one on a rainy day who doesn't know how to read."
— Benjamin Franklin
"Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn."
— Benjamin Franklin
"Lighthouses are more helpful than churches."
— Benjamin Franklin
"If everyone is thinking alike, then no one is thinking."
— Benjamin Franklin
"The way to see by faith is to shut the eye of reason."
— Benjamin Franklin
"To find out a girl's faults, praise her to her girlfriends."
— Benjamin Franklin
"When the well is dry, we know the worth of water."
— Benjamin Franklin
"I haven't failed, I've found 10,000 ways that don't work."
— Benjamin Franklin
"Never leave till tomorrow that which you can do today."
— Benjamin Franklin
"Eat to live, don't live to eat."
"No one cares what you know until they know that you care!"
— Benjamin Franklin
"I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ."
-Mahatma Gandhi
"Three can keep a secret if two of them are dead."
— Benjamin Franklin
"Instead of cursing the darkness, light the candle!"
— Benjamin Franklin
"Those who fail to learn the lessons of history are doomed to repeat them again..."
— Benjamin Franklin
"A nation of well-informed men who have been taught to know and prize the rights which God has given them cannot be enslaved. It is in the region of ignorance that tyranny begins.”
— Benjamin Franklin
"Wealth is not his that has it, but his that enjoys it."
— Benjamin Franklin
Oh nothing much, just saw you at the Photo Kano episode discussion thread, but you didn't score them yet in your list, so I was just curious, and since we have the anime compatibility of 71%, I thought that our taste would be quite similar :)
amichaaan said: No, being a fanboy/girl is just as retarded nationalism.
Monad said: But you chose your anime, you don't chose your country.
You don't choose your country, but you do choose whether to be a nationalist or not, just like you choose whether to be a fanboy/girl of a certain anime or not.
Good luck with that.
The new guidelines are a first step in the right direction, there is an intent on the mod side to crack down on all of these bad reviews and recs and I'm glad it is this way. They could just disable these function until a series reached a certain point, though...
MAL is slowly getting better, though. The issued new guidelines for reviews and recs a few days ago and I am a bit optimistic that a slow change in the review culture will affect the userbase as well.
After some detective work myself, I think TheAutocrat's article is a shitty metaphor tying Jason to Chris Huhne, creating the portmanteau "Jashuhne". I guess that's about what you'd expect from a tabloid magazine called "Private Eye".
I'm not that excited about Motoko's new look but seeing the trailer I like how they kept the cyberpunk elements. I hope they also bring back Batou, Tachikomas and other things from the franchise.
If they'd focus a lot on cyberpunk and philosophical themes instead of action packed political stuff, it's going to be epic.
