Topic: Quotable Quotes

[noirlax]

Russia: we will spy on you
America: we will spy on U2

- YouTube comment

Also:

"Didn't know U2 had a spy plane. That Bono dude must have a lot of money to burn."  Another YouTube comment

Lol

"If the people are awakened only at the time of voting and go into dormancy afterward; if the people only listen to smashing slogans during election campaigns but have no say afterward; if the people are only favored during canvassing but are left out after the election, such a democracy is not a true democracy"  - President Xi

[noirlax]

?International politics is never about democracy and human rights. It's about the interests of states. Remember that, no matter what you are told in history lessons.?
― Egon Bahr

[noirlax]

"What's the KGB?" is possibly the most American phrase ever uttered on YouTube (mind you I bet Edgar J. is spinning in his grave right now 😳) - Youtube comment

[noirlax]

 "Our fear that communism might someday take over most of the world blinds us to the fact that anti-communism already has." - Michael Parenti

[BiitoreinGoji]

"The trouble is that we have a bad habit, encouraged by pedants and sophisticates, of considering happiness as something rather stupid. Only pain is intellectual,
only evil interesting. This is the treason of the artist: a refusal to admit the banality of evil and the terrible boredom of pain. If you can't lick 'em, join 'em. If it hurts, repeat it. But to praise despair is to condemn delight, to embrace violence is to lose hold of everything else."

― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas

[noirlax]

These quotes are from the movie Lawrence of Arabia

Prince Feisal:
Young men make wars, and the virtues of war are the virtues of young men: courage, and hope for the future. Then old men make the peace, and the vices of peace are the vices of old men: mistrust and caution.

Prince Feisal:
You are merely a general. I must be a king.

[noirlax]

"I recently witnessed a "human meat-wave" assault.  I was at a Krogers Supermarket, when 3, 300 lb. women came waddling down the aisle pushing carts filled with potato chips and pop.  The snack department was almost completely devastated.  Oh, the horror.  I could almost hear their arteries clogging.  It was sickening.  There was no getting around them.  I was forced to retreat to the produce department where I took cover next to the spinach, since I knew they would never attack there."

Youtube comment on a military video.

[noirlax]

'Miyazaki is old and has lived a life where he was able to carve out a niche for him to follow his passion. He sees the world he lived in and wanted more.
Animators and Mangaka today are often young-ish men who are faced with the growing issues of their generation, a growing estrangement from the world, and the prospects of a life that they know will not hold the wonders they dream of. Animation today rejects the world that rejected them.
"I'm going to build my own theme park with blackjack and hookers"' @Leunenkoenig - Youtube comment to the video https://youtu.be/OkVg_rRP0Mc?si=-MFD0lj9LWPzQ2OL