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At a certain point caution becomes cowardice, no slave should ever die a natural death.

Let me tell you a little secret. The hardest part about getting played is loosing your dignity. feeling that you are not worth the oxygen you are sucking down. You get used to it you start to love it cos it’s like a bottle that never runs dry you keep reaching for it over and over again.
So how do you put that bottle away?
. . . I don’t know, one day you just get up out of bed and move on.

“One day you look in the mirror and realise that what you see is all you ever will be, you have to just accept it . . . or you kill yourself”
“You could stop looking into mirrors!”

Blackadder: Something’s going on, and I think I can make an educated guess what it is. Something which you, George, would find hard to do. [they go outside into the trench]

George: Ah, true, true. Where I was at school, education could go hang as long as a boy could hit a six, sing the school song very loud, and take a hot crumpet from behind without blubbing.

Blackadder: I, on the other hand, am a fully rounded human being with a degree from the university of life, a diploma from the school of hard knocks, and three gold stars from the kindergarten of getting the shit kicked out of me. My instincts lead me to deduce that we are at last about to go over the top. [peers over the top of the trench with a periscope]

George: Great Scott sir, you mean, you mean the moment’s finally arrived for us to give Harry Hun a darned good British style thrashing, six of the best, trousers down?

Blackadder: If you mean, “Are we all going to get killed?” Yes.
Clearly, Field Marshal Haig is about to make yet another gargantuan effort to move his drinks cabinet six inches closer to Berlin.

One of the indictments of civilizations is that happiness and intelligence are so rarely found in the same person.

Everybody’s acting like we can do anything and it don’t matter what we do. Maybe we gotta’ be extra careful because maybe it matters more than we even know.

I don’t have to tell you things are bad. Everybody knows things are bad. It’s a depression. Everybody’s out of work or scared of losing their job. The dollar buys a nickel’s work, banks are going bust, shopkeepers keep a gun under the counter. Punks are running wild in the street and there’s nobody anywhere who seems to know what to do, and there’s no end to it. We know the air is unfit to breathe and our food is unfit to eat, and we sit watching our TV’s while some local newscaster tells us that today we had fifteen homicides and sixty-three violent crimes, as if that’s the way it’s supposed to be. We know things are bad – worse than bad. They’re crazy. It’s like everything everywhere is going crazy, so we don’t go out anymore. We sit in the house, and slowly the world we are living in is getting smaller, and all we say is, ‘Please, at least leave us alone in our living rooms. Let me have my toaster and my TV and my steel-belted radials and I won’t say anything. Just leave us alone.’ Well, I’m not gonna leave you alone. I want you to get mad! I don’t want you to protest. I don’t want you to riot – I don’t want you to write to your congressman because I wouldn’t know what to tell you to write. I don’t know what to do about the depression and the inflation and the Russians and the crime in the street. All I know is that first you’ve got to get mad.

The most interesting thing in the world is another human being who wonders, suffers and raises the questions that have bothered him to the last day of his life, knowing he will never get the answers.
—Will Durant

A mob is the scum that rises upmost when the nation boils.
_{John Dryden}

You can always hire one half of the poor to beat up and kill the other half _Anonymous

Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts.
_{Rachel Louise Carson}

Never regard study as a duty but as an enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the community to which your later works belong.
_{Albert Einstein}

Chess teaches you to control the initial excitement you feel when you see something that looks good and it trains you to think objectively when you’re in trouble.
_{Stanley Kubrick}

Life is not an easy matter… You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above weakness, above all kinds of perfidy and baseness.
_{Leon Trotsky}

“Work is the refuge of people who have nothing better to do”