The Quote Cliches


Variations on a theme, or defense against the brainwashing?

Sometimes I swear I can answer all the news items in a single day by trotting out a quote or two.

"The more you tighten your grip, the more planets will slip through your fingers."
Star Wars

"The last, best hope for freedom."
Babylon 5

"Can't stop the signal."
Serenity

"There ain't no such thing as a free lunch."
The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress

"I am not a number. I am a free man!"
The Prisoner

And that is just the fiction.

"This country was founded by religious nuts with guns."
— P.J. O'Rourke

"Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom"
— Benjamin Franklin

"Mindful human beings require freedom and personal responsibility to live satisfying lives."
— Charles Murray

"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed—and thus clamourous to be led to safety—by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary."
— H.L. Mencken

"Life reverses local entropy."
— Isaac Asimov

"Irreverence is the champion of liberty and its only sure defense."
— Mark Twain

I don't mean to think in cliched solutions. But I keep running into cliched situations.

— NeoWayland

Posted: Tue - December 19, 2006 at 11:48 AM  Tag


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