History Quotes / TheQuisling

->''"It's extremely easy to be sucked into the dominant culture. It's very appealing. There are a lot of rewards. And what's more, the people you meet [[AffablyEvil don't look like bad people]]--You don't want to sit there and insult them. You try to be friends, maybe you even are friends. Well, you begin to conform, to adapt, you begin to smooth off the harsher edges--and pretty soon it's just happened, it kind of seeps in."''\\

->'''JohnAdams:''' Crippling taxes? Cruel repressions? Abolished rights?\\

'''John Dickinson:''' ''(mouth agape)'' Is that all England means to you, sir? Is that all the pride and affection you can muster for the nation that bore you? For the noblest, most civilized nation on the planet? Would you have us forsake Hastings and Magna Carta, Strongbow and Lionhearted, Drake and Marlborough, Tudors, Stuarts, and Plantagenets? For what, sir? Tell me, for what? For ''you''? Heh. Some men are patriots like General Washington. And others are anarchists, like Mr. Paine. Some, even, are internationalists, like Dr. Franklin. But ''you'', sir? You, sir, are merely an agitator. Distributing the peace, creating disorder, endangering the the public welfare! And for what? Your petty little personal complaints. ''Your taxes are too high.''\\

->''“The world is full of injustice, and those who profit by injustice are in a position to administer rewards and punishments. The rewards go to those who invent [[TheSocialDarwinist ingenious justifications]] for inequality, the punishments to [[MakeAnExampleOfThem those who try to remedy it.]]”''\\

->''“Another fact that allowed Fascism to gain power over men was their [[GenreBlindness blindness]]. A man cannot believe that he is about to be destroyed. The optimism of people standing on the edge of the grave is astounding.”''\\
--'''Vasily Grossman''', ''Life and Fate''

--''''Noam Chomsky''', ''Understanding Power''

->''" It's extremely easy to be sucked into the dominant culture. It's very appealing. There are a lot of rewards. And what's more, the people you meet [[AffablyEvil don't look like bad people]]--You don't want to sit there and insult them. You try to be friends, maybe you even are friends. Well, you begin to conform, to adapt, you begin to smooth off the harsher edges--and pretty soon it's just happened, it kind of seeps in."''\\

->''" It's extremely easy to be sucked into the dominant culture. It's very appealing. There are a lot of rewards. And what's more, the people you meet [[AffablyEvil don't look like bad people]]--You don't want to sit there and insult them. You try to be friends, maybe you even are friends. Well, you begin to conform, to adapt, you begin to smooth off the harsher edges--and pretty soon it's just happened it kind of seeps in."''\\

->''" It's extremely easy to be sucked into the dominant culture. It's very appealing. There are a lot of rewards. And what's more, the people you meet [[AffablyEvil don't look like bad people]]--You don't want to sit there and insult them. You try to be friends, maybe you even are friends. Well, you begin to conform, to adapt, you begin to smooth off the harsher edges--and pretty soon it's just happened it kind of seeps in."''

->''"Ironically, the single most masculine figure in contemporary American culture is a woman, namely SarahPalin. This is in part because of her success in rocketing to the head of a particular conservative movement that is based on masculinity...When these tactics are tied to [[HeteronormativeCrusader gay pani]]c and capitalism -- both natural allies in masculinity -- the result is terrifying. Sarah Palin's genius is to hide these factors in an ostensibly feminine, indeed an ostensibly feminist packaging."''\\

->''"Ironically, the single most masculine figure in contemporary American culture is a woman, namely SarahPalin. This is in part because of her success in rocketing to the head of a particular conservative movement that is based on masculinity. The modern conservative movement's dependence on the strategy of simply baldly lying whenever it is more convenient than the alternative is quintessentially masculine. When these tactics are tied to [[HeteronormativeCrusader gay pani]]c and capitalism -- both natural allies in masculinity -- the result is terrifying. Sarah Palin's genius is to hide these factors in an ostensibly feminine, indeed an ostensibly feminist packaging."''\\

->''''“The world is full of injustice, and those who profit by injustice are in a position to administer rewards and punishments. The rewards go to those who invent [[TheSocialDarwinist ingenious justifications]] for inequality, the punishments to [[MakeAnExampleOfThem those who try to remedy it.]]”''\\

->''"Um, since your rise to power, I have seen the wisdom and beneficence in your actions. You do not mean to cause us harm, but rather to bring us to greater glory by serving a being as ''perfect'' as yourself. Please allow me to demonstrate my loyal servitude by giving the location of the human detritus who undermine your 'sanitization': they are in the northeast banquet hall. All I ask in return for this expression of my love is a measure of protection and an opportunity to spread the message of your, uhh, cybernetic holiness."''
-->--'''Edward Diego''' to SHODAN, ''VideoGame/SystemShock''

->''''“The world is full of injustice, and those who profit by injustice are in a position to administer rewards and punishments. The rewards go to those who invent [[TheSocialDarwinist ingenious justifications]] for inequality, the punishments to [[MakeAnExampleOfThem those who try to remedy it.]]”''
-->--'''Bertrand Russell''', ''Sceptical Essays''

->''“Another fact that allowed Fascism to gain power over men was their [[GenreBlindness blindness]]. A man cannot believe that he is about to be destroyed. The optimism of people standing on the edge of the grave is astounding.”''
-->--'''Vasily Grossman''', ''Life and Fate''

-->--'''Edward Diego''' to SHODAN, ''VideoGame/SysteShock''

->''"Um, since your rise to power, I have seen the wisdom a-and beneficence in your actions. You do not mean to cause us harm, but rather to bring us to greater glory by serving a being as ''perfect'' as yourself. Please allow me to demonstrate my loyal servitude by giving the location of the human detritus who undermine your 'sanitization': they are in the northeast banquet hall. All I ask in return for this expression of my love is a measure of protection and an opportunity to spread the message of your, uhh, cybernetic holiness."''

->''"Um, since your rise to power, I have seen the ''wisdom'' and ''beneficence'' in your actions. You do not mean to cause us harm, but rather to bring us to greater glory by serving a being as perfect as yourself. Please allow me to demonstrate my loyal servitude by giving the location of the human detritus who undermine your 'sanitization': they are in the northeast banquet hall. All I ask in return for this expression of my love is a measure of protection and an opportunity to spread the message of your, uhh, cybernetic holiness."''

->''"A Heretic may see the truth and seek redemption. He may be forgiven his past and will be absolved in death. A Traitor can never be forgiven. A Traitor will never find peace in this world or the next. There is nothing as wretched or as hated in all the world as a Traitor."''
-->-- '''Cardinal Khrysdam''', Instructum Absolutio'', '''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}}'''

->''"In 1998, wealthy gay [[SanFrancisco Castro residents]] fought against a queer youth shelter because they feared it would get in the way of '[[UrbanSegregation community property values]].' They warned that a queer youth shelter would bring prostitution and drug-dealing to the neighborhood. For a moment, let's leave aside the absurdity of a wealthy gay neighborhood, obviously already a prime destination for [[HookersAndBlow prostitutes of a certain gender and drug-dealing of only the best substances]], worrying about the wrong kind of prostitutes (the ones in the street!), and the wrong kind of drug dealers (the ones who don't drive Mercedes!) arriving in their whitewashed gayborhood."''
-->--[[http://www.mattildabernsteinsycamore.com/gayrights_lip.html Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore]]

->''"“A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor [[AffablyEvil appears not a traitor]]; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their arguments, [[TheCorrupter he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men]]. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to fear."''\\

->''"I'm a policeman now, could you believe it? That's what's hard to believe. It's a good racket, Poldek. It's the only racket here. Look, maybe I could put in a good word for you with my superiors … come on, they're not as bad as everyone says. Well, they're ''worse'' than everyone says, but it's a lot of money, a lot of money."''\\

'''Orlok:''' [[DeadpanSnarker Then I'm sure you have their admiration]].
-->-- ''VideoGame/UniverseAtWar''