History Quotes / BecameTheirOwnAntithesis

-->--''Wiki/RationalWiki''

->''"Rand was broken by the Bolsheviks as a girl, and she never left their bootprint behind. She believed her philosophy was Bolshevism's opposite, when in reality it was its twin. Both she and the Soviets insisted a small revolutionary elite in possession of absolute rationality must seize power and impose its vision on a malleable, imbecilic mass. The only difference was that Lenin thought the parasites to be stomped on [[EatTheRich were the rich]], while Rand thought [[KillThePoor they were the poor.]]"''

->''"At the very time that overt anti-Semitism was beginning to vanish from mainstream American culture, UsefulNotes/RichardNixon was perhaps the most profoundly anti-Semitic president in U.S. history. In the Nixon tapes, he repeatedly accuses American Jews of placing ''"[[GreedyJew Jewish interests]]"'' before American ones, an almost verbatim reuse of one of 19th-century Europe's most pernicious anti-Semitic canards. Despite this Nixon surrounded himself with Jews at high levels in the White House: Leonard Garment (chief economic advisor), Ben Stein (chief speechwriter), William Safire (campaign manager), Murray Chotiner (adviser and campaign manager), and of course Secretary of State Henry Kissinger...Nixon's obsession with the Evil Jew was just part of a profoundly paranoid personality that saw [[StringTheory vast, byzantine conspiracies]] lurking everywhere. It is ironic (but predictable) that such a committed conspiracy theorist was responsible for some of the most outrageous conspiracies ever perpetrated in American politics."''
-->--'''''Wiki/RationalWiki'''''

->''But did his followers really know him? The ‘Johnson’, as they called him, did not consider the fact that the man [[AccidentalMurder who had died in the spinning blades of one of his machines]] had been, in life, one of the forgotten people he pretended to care for. He did not think about the fact that the only reason there had been no repercussion was because of [[DisposableVagrant the man’s lowly status]]. He did not know that the lonely wanderer had been cast from his work, insulating satellite interiors, [[JobStealingRobot when a fleet of Mecha workers had been perfected for the job]]. The man had lost his wife when his lack of income made the Child Licensing Authority reject his application. Nor did the ‘Johnson’ care enough to find out about these things. [[KnightTemplar Lord Johnson Johnson]], self-proclaimed protector of the last vestiges of Orga, [[HeWhoFightsMonsters had become part of the plagues that consumed them]]. But his followers did not know it. Nor did he. The arrogance and zeal with which he had built his temple had become the very corrupter of his message.''

->''So now you've turned your back on all the things that you used to preach.
->Now it's "Let him live in freedom - if he lives like me."
->Well your line has changed, confusion reigns, what have you become?
->All your olive branches turned to spears when your flowers turned to guns.''

->''I started out by viewing the marketplace as a cruel place, where you need intervention by government and lawyers to protect people. But after watching the regulators work, I have come to believe that markets are magical and the best protectors of the consumer. It is my job to explain the beauties of the free market.''
-->--'''John Stossel'''

->''"Lee, if that [=iPod=] thing is true, you're ''not'' the man I thought you were, and that's the price you'll pay for this petty victory."''

-->--'''Obi-Wan Kenobi''', ''Franchise/StarWars Episode III: Film/RevengeOfTheSith''

->''“Fascism is the stage reached after communism has proved an illusion.”''

->''“It is one of history's ironies that Communism, advertised as a classless society, tended to breed a privileged class of feudal proportions.”''

->''"It's strange... [[AllLovingHero Nobody ever, um, cherished the universe the way you once did]]... And yet, [[OmnicidalManiac you've been made to destroy it]]..."

->"''You have allowed this dark lord to [[TheCorrupter twist your mind]] until now you have become the very thing you swore to destroy.''"\\
-- '''Obi-Wan Kenobi''', ''Franchise/StarWars Episode III: Film/RevengeOfTheSith''

->''“Fascism is the stage reached after communism has proved an illusion.”''\\
--'''Friedrich Hayek'''

->''“It is one of history's ironies that Communism, advertised as a classless society, tended to breed a privileged class of feudal proportions.”''\\
--'''Henry Kissinger''', ''On China ''

->''"At the very time that overt anti-Semitism was beginning to vanish from mainstream American culture, UsefulNotes/RichardNixon was perhaps the most profoundly anti-Semitic president in U.S. history. In the Nixon tapes, he repeatedly accuses American Jews of placing ''"[[GreedyJew Jewish interests]]"'' before American ones, an almost verbatim reuse of one of 19th-century Europe's most pernicious anti-Semitic canards. Despite this Nixon surrounded himself with Jews at high levels in the White House: Leonard Garment (chief economic advisor), Ben Stein (chief speechwriter), William Safire (campaign manager), Murray Chotiner (adviser and campaign manager), and of course Secretary of State Henry Kissinger...Nixon's obsession with the Evil Jew was just part of a profoundly paranoid personality that saw [[StringTheory vast, byzantine conspiracies]] lurking everywhere. It is ironic (but predictable) that such a committed conspiracy theorist was responsible for some of the most outrageous conspiracies ever perpetrated in American politics."''\\
--'''''Wiki/RationalWiki'''''

->''"Rand was broken by the Bolsheviks as a girl, and she never left their bootprint behind. She believed her philosophy was Bolshevism's opposite, when in reality it was its twin. Both she and the Soviets insisted a small revolutionary elite in possession of absolute rationality must seize power and impose its vision on a malleable, imbecilic mass. The only difference was that Lenin thought the parasites to be stomped on [[EatTheRich were the rich]], while Rand thought [[KillThePoor they were the poor.]]"''\\
--'''Jonathan Hari''' [[http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/books/2009/11/how_ayn_rand_became_an_american_icon.html on]] Creator/AynRand

But then Hitchens decided that, in fact, bombing children was no longer so abhorrent, because these wars were no longer neocolonial wars dictated by economics and geopolitics but rather a final Armageddon between [[MoralMyopia the forces of rationality]] and the forces of religion...Somehow the man who denounced Kissinger’s war crimes now supported Bush’s — both wars, of course, supported by the scantest of logic. The man who so eloquently chronicled the corruption of the [[UsefulNotes/BillClinton Clinton]] administration became the shill of [[UsefulNotes/GeorgeWBush his successor.]]"''\\
--'''[[http://www.seanamcelwee.com/2013/12/09/abolishing-religion-wont-fix-anything/ Steve McElwee]]'''

-->-- ''Film/AIArtificialIntelligence, [[http://www.comeawayohumanchild.net/WhereTheLionsWeep/AIAFNb2c03version2005.htm A Fan's Novelisation]]''

-->-- '''Lord Deplorable, WebSite/{{Twitter}}'''

-->-- '''Lord Deplorable, WebSite/Twitter'''

->''"During the first Gulf War, Creator/ChristopherHitchens famously schooled CharltonHeston, asking him to name the countries surrounding Iraq, the place he was so eager to invade. A flummoxed Heston sputtered, naming a few random Middle Eastern countries (including, rather humorously, [[GlobalIgnorance the island nation of Cyprus]]).\\\

--'''Jonathan Hari''' [[http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/books/2009/11/how_ayn_rand_became_an_american_icon.html on]] AynRand

But then Hitchens decided that, in fact, bombing children was no longer so abhorrent, because these wars were no longer neocolonial wars dictated by economics and geopolitics but rather a final Armageddon between [[MoralMyopia the forces of rationality]] and the forces of religion...Somehow the man who denounced Kissinger’s war crimes now supported Bush’s — both wars, of course, supported by the scantest of logic. The man who so eloquently chronicled the corruption of the [[BillClinton Clinton]] administration became the shill of [[GeorgeWBush his successor.]]"''\\

--'''Jonathan Hari''' [[www.slate.com/articles/arts/books/2009/11/how_ayn_rand_became_an_american_icon.html on]] AynRand

But then Hitchens decided that, in fact, bombing children was no longer so abhorrent, because these wars were no longer neocolonial wars dictated by economics and geopolitics but rather a final Armageddon between [[MoralMyopia the forces of rationality]] and the forces of religion...Somehow the man who denounced Kissinger’s war crimes now supported Bush’s — both wars, of course, supported by the scantest of logic. The man who so eloquently chronicled the corruption of the Clinton administration became the shill of his successor."''\\

->"''You have allowed this dark lord to [[TheCorrupter twist your mind]] until now you have become the very thing you swore to destroy.''"\\
-- '''Obi-Wan Kenobi''', ''Franchise/StarWars Episode III: Film/RevengeOfTheSith''

->''“It is one of history's ironies that Communism, advertised as a classless society, tended to breed a privileged class of feudal proportions.”''

->“Fascism is the stage reached after communism has proved an illusion.”\\

->"''You have allowed this dark lord to [[TheCorrupter twist your mind]] until now you have become the very thing you swore to destroy.''"
-->-- '''Obi-Wan Kenobi''', ''Franchise/StarWars Episode III: Film/RevengeOfTheSith''

-->-- '''Obi-Wan Kenobi''', ''StarWars: RevengeOfTheSith''