Quote me thy Anti-heroes !

[triplesix]

Quote:"You are a den of vipers! I intend to rout you out, and by the Eternal God I will rout you out. If the people only understood the rank injustice of our money and banking system, there would be a revolution before morning."

Quote:"The world is governed by very different personages from what is imagined by those who are not behind the scenes."

Quote:"From the time I took office as Chancellor of the Exchequer I began to learn that the State held, in the face of the Bank and the City, an essentially false position as to finance. The Government was not to be the substantive power, but was to leave the Money Power supreme and unquestioned."

Quote:"The few who understand the system will either be so interested in its profits or be so dependent upon its favours that there will be no opposition from that class."

Quote:"Corporations have been enthroned and an era of corruption in high places will follow, and the money power of the country will endeavor to prolong its reign by working upon the prejudices of the people until wealth is aggregated in a few hands, and the Republic is destroyed."

Quote:"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...

...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."

Quote:"Through evolution in crime the corporation has taken the place of the pirate."

Quote:By this means government may secretly and unobserved, confiscate the wealth of the people, and not one man in a million will detect the theft.

And for sheer random ethnically driven hatred, #1 prize goes to Dr. Cornelius P. Rhoads, Rockefeller Institute,

Quote:"The Puerto Ricans are the dirtiest, laziest, most dangerous and theivish race of men ever inhabiting this sphere... I have done my best to further the process of extermination by killing off eight and transplanting cancer into several more... All physicians take delight in the abuse and torture of the unfortunate subjects."

[triplesix]

And the best for last:

Quote:"I spent thirty-three years and four months in active military service as a member of this country's most agile military force, the Marine Corps. I served in all commissioned ranks from Second Lieutenant to Major-General. And during that period, I spent most of my time being a high class muscle-man for Big Business, for Wall Street and for the Bankers. In short, I was a racketeer, a gangster for capitalism.

I suspected I was just part of a racket at the time. Now I am sure of it. Looking back on it, I feel that I could have given Al Capone a few hints. The best he could do was to operate his racket in three districts. I operated on three continents."

Quote:"In March, 1915, the J.P. Morgan interests, the steel, shipbuilding, and powder interests, and their subsidiary organizations, got together 12 men high up in the newspaper world and employed them to select the most influential newspapers in the United States and sufficient number of them to control generally the policy of the daily press... They found it was only necessary to purchase the control of 25 of the greatest papers.

An agreement was reached; the policy of the papers was bought, to be paid for by the month; an editor was furnished for each paper to properly supervise and edit information regarding the questions of preparedness, militarism, financial policies, and other things of national and international nature considered vital to the interests of the purchasers."

Quote:"The real menace of our Republic is the invisible government, which like a giant octopus sprawls its slimy legs over our cities, states and nation. To depart from mere generalizations, let me say that at the head of this octopus are the Rockefeller-Standard Oil interests and a small group of powerful banking houses generally referred to as the international bankers. The little coterie of powerful international bankers virtually run the United States government for their own selfish purposes.

‘They practically control both parties, write political platforms, make catspaws of party leaders, use the leading men of private organizations, and resort to every device to place in nomination for high public office only such candidates as will be amenable to the dictates of corrupt big business.

‘These international bankers and Rockefeller-Standard Oil interests control the majority of the newspapers and magazines in this country. They use the columns of these papers to club into submission or drive out of office public officials who refuse to do the bidding of the powerful corrupt cliques which compose the invisible government. It operates under cover of a self-created screen [and] seizes our executive officers, legislative bodies, schools, courts, newspapers and every agency created for the public protection."

Quote:"The very word secrecy is repugnant, in a free and open society, and we are as a people, inherently and historically, apposed to secret societies, secret oaths, and to secret proceedings. But we are apposed around the world, by a monolithic and ruthless conspiracy, that relies primarily on cover means for expanding it’s fear of influence, on infiltration, instead of invasion. On subversion, instead of elections. On intimidation, instead of free choice.
It is a system that has conscripted, vast human and material resources, into the building of a tightly knit, highly efficient machine, that combines military, diplomatic, intelligence, economic, scientific and political operations.
It’s preparations are concealed, not published. It’s mistakes are buried, not headlined. It’s discenters silenced, not praised.
No expenditure is questioned. No secret is reveled.
That is why the Athenian law maker Solon declared it a crime to any citizen to shrink from controversy.
I am asking for your help in the tremendous task of informing and alerting the American people. Confident with your help man will be what he was born to be, free and independant."

Peace.

[standvast]

your integrity is your own; who can take it from you ?
Who but yourself to prevent you from using it ?
When you are eager for what is not your own, you lose that very thing. ~Epictetus.

[Justinfinity]

Quote:"Be clearly aware of the stars and infinity on high. Then life seems almost enchanted after all."
- Vincent van Gogh

Quote:"We are star stuff harvesting star light."
- Carl Sagan

Quote:"He who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens."
- Carl Gustav Jung

Quote:"If you still experience the stars as something above you, you lack the eye of knowledge and will never know wisdom."
- Friedrich Nietzsche

Quote:“When we discover that the truth is already in us, we are all at once our original selves.”
- Dōgen Zenji

Quote:"We are here to learn to love one another. I do not know what the others are here for."
- W. H. Auden

[FastTadpole]

Quote:"Every man dies. Not every man really lives."
- William Wallace

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Quote:Capt. Dobbs:
[S]uppose every one thought the same way you do?
Capt. Yossarian:
Then I'd be a damn fool to think any different.

[FastTadpole]

"If you think you’re too small to have an impact, try going to bed with a mosquito in the room."
- Anita Rodick

"We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children."
- Native American Proverb

[Easy Skanking]

Some from Frank Zappa:

Quote:"Drop out of school before your mind rots from exposure to our mediocre educational system. Forget about the Senior Prom and go to the library and educate yourself if you've got any guts. Some of you like Pep rallies and plastic robots who tell you what to read. Forget I mentioned it. This song has no message. Rise for the flag salute."


"If you wind up with a boring, miserable life because you listened to your mom, your dad, your teacher, your priest or some guy on TV telling you how to do your shit, then YOU DESERVE IT. "


"A mind is like a parachute. It doesnt work if it's not open."

"Without deviation from the norm, 'progress' is not possible."

A few from Jimi Hendrix:

Quote:"In order to change the world, you have to get your head together first. "

"When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace. "

"You have to go on and be crazy. Craziness is like heaven. "

"“Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens.”"

And some from Bob Marley:

Quote:"Herb is the healing of a nation, alcohol is the destruction. "

"The more people smoke herb, the more Babylon fall. "

"When you smoke the herb, it reveals you to yourself. "

"When one door is closed, don't you know, another is open. "

[FastTadpole]

"Oppression feels good when it's really convenient."
- Baratunde Thurston

"If it was created by man, it can be hacked by man."
- Easy Skanking

[Easy Skanking]

Does this mean I'm an official anti-hero now? Where do I go to get my costume?

[Apocalypso Now!]

Kilgore: You can either surf, or you can fight!

[FastTadpole]

   

As for the costume Easy Skanking ...


   
.. I even found a sidekick for ya

[Easy Skanking]

(12-24-2009 06:48 AM)FastTadpole Wrote:  As for the costume Easy Skanking ...



.. I even found a sidekick for ya

...and now some more quotes....

"The media likes to portray me as a senseless killer. I would point out that I am a very sensible killer."
—The Punisher

"There are no coincidences, Delia... only the illusion of coincidence."
-V

"People should not be afraid of their governments. Governments should be afraid of their people."
-V

"It's only after you've lost everything that you're free to do anything." -Tyler Durden

"Look, the people you are after are the people you depend on. We cook your meals, we haul your trash, we connect your calls, we drive your ambulances. We guard you while you sleep. Do not... fuck with us."
-Tyler Durden

[FastTadpole]

"Continuous warfare [is] a means to control the Western economy, and as a way to control rebel elements within society through the use of fear, constant fear. In my country we seem to be sanctioning renditioning of innocent people without trial ... put them in jail without telling anyone ... and torture them out of suspicion of what we think they might do. This is exactly what Orwell was talking about when he spoke of thought crimes."
~ Tim Robbins

"We have right now a media that is willfully ignoring the high crimes and misdemeanors of the president of the United States."
~ Tim Robbins

"Haven't criminal acts occurred in government? Shouldn't there be accountability for inept policy decisions? Shouldn't someone be fired? And you know something? I didn't hear any of that, because I am still thinking about that starlet getting out of the car without the panties."
~ Tim Robbins

Pretty decent stuff coming from an actor IMO, many are aware of the atrocities but few actually dare to speak of it.

[standvast]

Talent hits a target no one else can hit;
Genius hits a target no one else can see. ~ Arthur Schopenhauer .
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If you allow men to use you for your own purposes,
they will use you for theirs. ~ Aesopus.

The gods help them that help themselves and others.
~ Aesopus.

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God has entrusted me with myself.
~ Epictetus.

If thy brother wrongs thee,
remember not so much his wrong-doing,
but more than ever that he is thy brother.
~ Epictetus.

We have two ears and one mouth
so that we can listen twice as much as we speak.
~ Epictetus.