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LetsShrug's Roark and Mallory post got me thinking

Posted by $ rockymountainpirate 9 years, 1 month ago to Philosophy
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I really like that exchange between Roark and Mallory. It got me thinking about other great quotes and concepts I've read. Here are a few recently I have recently read. Post quotes that you find valuable.

“If something is wrong, it matters not if a thousand men are for it; you must still oppose it. If something is just, no amount of popular outcry should stay you from your course.”
― Terry Goodkind, Naked Empire

“If you are unwilling to defend your right to your own lives,
then you are merely like mice trying to argue with owls.
You think their ways are wrong.
They think you are dinner.”
― Terry Goodkind, Naked Empire

“Right and wrong are not the product of census.”
― Terry Goodkind, Naked Empire

“People use democracy as a free-floating abstraction disconnected from reality. Democracy in and of itself is not necessarily good. Gang rape, after all, is democracy in action.

All men have the right to live their own life. Democracy must be rooted in a rational philosophy that first and foremost recognizes the right of an individual. A few million Imperial Order men screaming for the lives of a much smaller number of people in the New World may win a democratic vote, but it does not give them the right to those lives, or make their calls for such killing right.

Democracy is not a synonym for justice or for freedom. Democracy is not a sacred right sanctifying mob rule. Democracy is a principle that is subordinate to the inalienable rights of the individual.”
― Terry Goodkind, Naked Empire

“Everyone makes mistakes. How a person deals with their mistakes is a mark of their character.”
― Terry Goodkind, Naked Empire

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  • Posted by Matcha 9 years, 1 month ago
    Thank you Rockymountainpirate. Great read. Thank you Khalling for the quote.
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  • Posted by dwlievert 9 years, 1 month ago
    If one behaves as a sheep, the wolves will pick up on your scent.
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  • Posted by $ jlc 9 years, 1 month ago in reply to this comment.
    It has one disparaging comment about profit that made me wince. Other than that, it actually reminded me of a spinoff of one of the B5 episodes. Let's see if you get the same impression.

    Jan
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  • Posted by freedomforall 9 years, 1 month ago in reply to this comment.
    So many poorly written Star Trek movies instead. Bang, boom, socialist message.
    Today's audiences need B5 with modern SFX.
    I wish JMS would crowd fund it, probably would raise $10 million+.

    Thanks for the rec on Jupiter Ascending. I haven't seen it, but another respected friend also recommended it, so it's on my list to see.
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  • Posted by $ jlc 9 years, 1 month ago in reply to this comment.
    Have you seen Jupiter Ascending? (Do not believe the critics - it is a good film.) On the topic of G'Kar, however, Jupiter Ascending made it clear what could be done with re-making B5 using modern effects - I am thinking of a mini-series or a trilogy of movies. Additionally, with pre-planning, one could remedy the error of Strazenski (sp?) not having been able to work some of the earlier threads back into the plot due to threat of cancellation.

    It would be a timely piece, with a theme that needs to be expressed. It is not lost on either of us that B5 became a kinda Gulch.

    Jan
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  • Posted by Herb7734 9 years, 1 month ago in reply to this comment.
    What about a huge statue of a pigeon with old generals perched all over it? (It's early & I'm weird)
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  • Posted by starznbarz 9 years, 1 month ago
    "You can get much farther with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone."

    Al Capone

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  • Posted by johnpe1 9 years, 1 month ago
    "Climate is what you expect;;; weather is what you get."
    -- Robert Heinlein, Time Enough For Love, I think. -- j

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  • Posted by freedomforall 9 years, 1 month ago in reply to this comment.
    The internet is a demanding mistess, and we all need time away in reality. Glad we have G'Kar admiration in common ;^)
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  • Posted by strugatsky 9 years, 1 month ago in reply to this comment.
    Well, as a science fiction writer, he had the ability to foresee the future. Doesn't that letter look like a phone menu when you call a large organization?
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  • Posted by $ jlc 9 years, 1 month ago in reply to this comment.
    Thank you, freedomforall. And then there is:

    "No dictator, no invader can hold an imprisoned population by force of arms forever. There is no greater power in the universe than the need for freedom. Against that power tyrants and dictators cannot stand. The Centauri learned that lesson once. We will teach it to them again. Although it take a thousand years, we will be free."
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  • Posted by starznbarz 9 years, 1 month ago
    This quote, particularly the last portion, defines perfectly my notion of Liberty . "But it does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no God. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg."

    -Thomas Jefferson, Notes on Virginia, 1782

    -Thomas Jefferson, Notes on Virginia, 1782
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