History Quotes / WeAREStrugglingTogether

->"Even the pious Scots, locked throughout history in a long-drawn-out battle with [[ViolentGlaswegian their arch-enemies the Scots]], managed a few [[BurnTheWitch burnings]] to while away the long winter evenings..."

->...which had prompted another round of what I refused to even call bickering. I knew bickering, [[VitriolicBestBuds it was the true tongue of all my closest friends.]] There was fondness in bickering, a give and take. This was just an ugly brew of distrust and spite spilling over what should have been an exceedingly straightforward matter.

->In theory, [[HermeticMagic Order of Hermes mages]] hold that they serve humanity by resisting the Technocracy, studying arcane lore and transforming that lore into everyday reality. In practice, they have become so entwined in political intrigue within their own Chantries that Technomancers have to come knocking down their doors before [[MotiveDecay they remember their stated mission]].
-->--''TabletopGame/MageTheAscension - Book Of Shadows: Player's Guide''

->For forty years -- as Denny Brennan's series revealed -- Hertz Shemets used his position as local director of the FBI's domestic surveillance program to run his own private game on the Americans. The Bureau first recruited him in the fifties to fight Communists and the Yiddish Left, which, though fractious, was strong, hardened, embittered, suspicious of the Americans, and, in the case of the former Israelis, not especially grateful to be here. Hertz Shemets's brief was to monitor and infiltrate the local Red population; Hertz wiped them out. He fed the socialists to the Communists, and the Stalinists to the Trotskyites, and the Hebrew Zionists to the Yiddish Zionists, and when feeding time was over, he wiped the mouths of those still standing and fed them to each other.

->These walls are '''vibrating''' with defeatism and frustration. Emotions that can kill '''any''' effort, pull '''any''' team apart. And we're hardly the most '''natural''' ensemble to begin with!

-->-- '''Contrary''', ''ComicBook/Ultraforce'' (Vol. 1)

-->-- '''Will Rogers'''

-->-- '''Sir Thomas Maculay, ''Lays of Ancient Rome'''''

->''"Even the pious Scots, locked throughout history in a long-drawn-out battle with [[ViolentGlaswegian their arch-enemies the Scots]], managed a few [[BurnTheWitch burnings]] to while away the long winter evenings..."''
-->-- '''Creator/NeilGaiman''' & '''Creator/TerryPratchett''', ''Literature/GoodOmens''

->''"...which had prompted another round of what I refused to even call bickering. I knew bickering, [[VitriolicBestBuds it was the true tongue of all my closest friends.]] There was fondness in bickering, a give and take. This was just an ugly brew of distrust and spite spilling over what should have been an exceedingly straightforward matter."''

-->-- ''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/13183395 honing in on the heart of it all]]'', a ''VisualNovel/ZeroTimeDilemma'' fic

->''For forty years -- as Denny Brennan's series revealed -- Hertz Shemets used his position as local director of the FBI's domestic surveillance program to run his own private game on the Americans. The Bureau first recruited him in the fifties to fight Communists and the Yiddish Left, which, though fractious, was strong, hardened, embittered, suspicious of the Americans, and, in the case of the former Israelis, not especially grateful to be here. Hertz Shemets's brief was to monitor and infiltrate the local Red population; Hertz wiped them out. He fed the socialists to the Communists, and the Stalinists to the Trotskyites, and the Hebrew Zionists to the Yiddish Zionists, and when feeding time was over, he wiped the mouths of those still standing and fed them to each other.''

->For forty years--as Denny Brennan’s series revealed--Hertz Shemets used his position as local director of the FBI’s domestic surveillance program to run his own private game on the Americans. The Bureau first recruited him in the fifties to fight Communists and the Yiddish Left, which, though fractious, was strong, hardened, embittered, suspicious of the Americans, and, in the case of the former Israelis, not especially grateful to be here. Hertz Shemets’s brief was to monitor and infiltrate the local Red population; Hertz wiped them out. He fed the socialists to the Communists, and the Stalinists to the Trotskyites, and the Hebrew Zionists to the Yiddish Zionists, and when feeding time was over, he wiped the mouths of those still standing and fed them to each other.

-> ''"I don't belong to any organized political party. [[TakeThat I'm a Democrat]]."''

->In theory, [[HermeticMagic Order of Hermes mages]] hold that they serve humanity by resisting [[TheMan the Technocracy]], studying arcane lore and transforming that lore into everyday reality. In practice, they have become so entwined in political intrigue within their own Chantries that Technomancers have to come knocking down their doors before [[MotiveDecay they remember their stated mission]].

->''"Even the pious Scots, locked throughout history in a long-drawn-out battle with [[ViolentGlaswegian their arch-enemies the Scots]], managed a few burnings to while away the long winter evenings..."''

->''(the Campaign for Free Galilee and the People's Front of Judea are fighting over who had the idea to kidnap Pilate's wife)''\\

'''Francis:''' We are! Ohh.\\

'''Francis:'' Yeah. He's right. Let's go in, get her out, and we can argue afterwards.