History Quotes / CassandraTruth

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-->-- ''Fanfic/{{Eleutherophobia}}: The Day the Earth Stood Still''[[/folder]]

-->--'''Quackity''' about [[BigBad Dream]], ''WebVideo/DreamSMP''

-->--'''William Beaver''' on Twitter, ''WebVideo/StampysLovelyWorld''

-> ''I remember when ''VideoGame/MightyNo9'' was on kickstarter, and everyone was going apeshit over it. I was saying, "Guys? Inafune was the ''PRODUCER'' of Megaman. He was neither the director nor the head designer, he's the ''business'' guy. Not the creative guy." I even pointed out that games like ''VideoGame/MegamanBattleNetwork4'' have his name on it. But nobody listened. Fast forward to 2016 and... well...''

-->--''Series/StrangerThings'', "Dig Dug"

-->-- '''Music/NewOrder,''' "Confusion"

-->--'''Vladimir Vysotskiy''', "Song of the Seer Cassandra"

-->-- '''[[Creator/HPLovecraft Dagon Tabernacle Choir]]''', "[[AntiChristmasSong It's Beginning To Look A Lot Like Fishmen]]".

->'''Splinter(in-Shredder's body):''' Wait! ''(the Turtles ready to fight)'' you must listen to me.\\

-->--'''Quackity''' about [[BigBad Dream]], ''WebOriginal/DreamSMP''

->'''Peter Parker:''' I'm Spider-Man.
->'''Mary Jane:''' What? What did you just say?
->'''Peter Parker:''' Sshh...
->'''Mary Jane:''' What?
->'''Peter Parker:''' Shhh... I'm Spider-Man.
->'''Mary Jane:''' You're Spider-Man?
->'''Peter Parker:''' Yes
->'''Mary Jane:''' The superhero?
->'''Peter Parker:''' Yes
->'''Mary Jane:''' HA HA AH! AHHH AHH! Oh, man... HAHAHAAH!

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->''"They're making this too easy! ''[cackles]'' Y'know, in all the bodies I've been in, no one has ever gotten wise to me. And now, for the first time, an immunity cell has figured out ''everything''...and they ''don't believe him.'' Can you taste the irony in that?"''
-->-- '''Thrax''', ''Film/OsmosisJones''

->'''Earl Stutz''': I'm telling the truth, dang it! It came from outer space. I saw it! And it was headed toward land. I called the government in Washington. Maybe it was a sputnik, or... or an invader from Mars. That's what it is, an invader from Mars! It was a spaceship of some kind. An unidentified flying object...\\
'''Man''': Unidentified? Knowing you, Earl, I'd say it was either whiskey or beer.

->'''Kent Mansley''': Sir, this thing is a menace. It destroyed a power station, it... it caused a train wreck!\\
'''General Rogard''': What did, Mansley? Tell me again, and this time, listen to yourself.\\
'''Mansley''': A giant... metal monster.\\
'''Rogard''': *laughs uncontrollably*

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-->--'''Quackity''' about '''[[BigBad Dream]]''', ''LetsPlay/DreamSMP''

'''[[ConsummateLiar Girl Stinky]]:''' I'm sure you do. *under her breath* [[HypocriticalHumor Mangy lying dog.]]
-->-- '''[[VideoGame/SamAndMaxFreelancePolice Sam and Max Beyond Time and Space: Moai Better Blues]]'''

-->- -'''Vladimir Vysotskiy''', "Song of the Seer Cassandra"

-->--'''Quackity''' about '''[[OverarchingVillain Dream]]''', ''LetsPlay/DreamSMP''

->'''Bill Maher:''' Ann, which republican candidate has the best chance of winning the general election?\\
'''Ann Coulter:''' Of the declared ones, right now [2015], UsefulNotes/DonaldTrump.\\
(''Cue mass laugh.'')

->"You have one more chance to exit your host, and then we will be transporting you back to containment where you will be held without access to Kandrona until such time as you are forced to exit your host," he recited.\\
"Can't you do a brain scan or something?" I asked desperately. "There has to be a hospital somewhere nearby. You can just take me there, give me an MRI or whatever, and when you see that I'm telling the truth you can—"\\
"That's it," he said. "You're coming with us. If you attempt to escape or show any signs of morphing, you will be shot in the head. Do I make myself clear?"

->''"Jordan, half the board already wants to put me into a fucking straitjacket. How the hell do you explain this without the other half agreeing?\\
Tried to tell [Alan], but his exact words were, 'Flynn, you're the CEO of a Fortune 500 company, with a wife and a child. Quit smoking that shit.' The only way he'll believe this is if I knock him out and drag him in here."''

->''"You have one more chance to exit your host, and then we will be transporting you back to containment where you will be held without access to Kandrona until such time as you are forced to exit your host," he recited.\\

"That's it," he said. "You're coming with us. If you attempt to escape or show any signs of morphing, you will be shot in the head. Do I make myself clear?"''

->"Why are you booing me? I'm right!"

->"I think you'll find that the Prime Minister is actually an alien in disguise, and... ''[{{beat}}]'' That's never going to work, is it?"

->"Three years. For ''three years'', I warned you this day was coming, but you would not listen. [[HeadInTheSandManagement Pride, you said; presumption.]] And now the Shadows are on the move. The Centauri and the younger worlds are at war; the Narns have fallen; even [[TheWarOfEarthlyAggression the humans]] are [[CivilWar fighting one another]]! The pride was yours; the presumption was yours."

Nonstop the mad maiden screamed:\\

Were always burned at the stake.
-->- -Vladimir Vysotskiy, "Song of the Seer Cassandra"

->I wish I'd paid attention to that crazy drunken man\\
He tried to warn me all about old Marsh's Deep One clan
-->-- [[Creator/HPLovecraft Dagon Tabernacle Choir]], ''[[AntiChristmasSong It's Beginning To Look A Lot Like Fishmen]]''.

->I tried... I ''tried'' to tell them... But they wouldn't listen to me... Damn them! ''Damn their eyes!'' They didn't believe me. Strange creatures... The world in peril from unseen foes... The death... ''The darkness!'' Instead, they jeered and threw me into this ''forsaken'' place, a place of empty souls and fevered thoughts, ''reeking'' of foetor and decay, thinking me mad with delirium! The fools cast away their hopes of salvation, by locking me in this ''damned asylum!''
->MAY THE RATS EAT YOUR EYES! I AM NOW LOST TO YOUR CAUSE! THE DARKNESS COMES! ''IT WILL DAMN US ALL!''

-->--'''Quackity about''' '''[[OverarchingVillain Dream]]''', ''LetsPlay/DreamSMP''

-->'''Splinter*in-Shredder's body*:''' Wait! (the Turtles ready to fight) you must listen to me.\\

'''Splinter*in-Shredder's body*:''' Please tried to understand. I'm not really Shredder. I'm Splinter.\\

'''Splinter*in-Shredder's body*:''' Listen to me, Turtles. I have always taught you to look beneath the surface for the inner truth. (the Turtles listen in astonishment) See with your hearts, not with your eyes. Then if you still do not believe me, do with me as you will.\\
'''Donatello:''' You know, call me crazy, but somehow (putting his weapon down) I believe him.\\
'''Raphael:''' If you're crazy, (both Michelangelo and Leonardo putting their weapons down) then you're not the only one.(putting his weapons down)\\

'''Leonardo:'''(putting his weapons away) It's good to have you back, Master Splinter.\\
'''Splinter*in-Shredder's body*:'''(sees that the Turtles believe him) It is good to be back.

->On this show, the more kookier the alibi, the more I would be inclined to believe them.

->To describe the way things really are is to be a shit and we know what happens to shits: [[KilledToUpholdTheMasquerade they are flushed away]].

->You were given the choice between war and dishonour. You chose dishonour [[UsefulNotes/WorldWarII and you will have war.]]

->It is easy to keep secrets by being honest in an ironic tone of voice.

->Either you repeat the same conventional doctrines everybody is saying, or else you say something true, and it will sound like it's from Neptune.

->In a trial, the convincing testimony of a single witness can trump mountains of scientific evidence, even though it’s been shown time and time again how fallible memory is, something that [[TheMunchausen we’ve just been reminded of yet again by Brian Williams]]...It’s a feature, not a bug, in human thought, and it’s how we skeptics, no matter how hard we try to avoid it, are often viewed by “regular people.”

->You don't know what you have done. [[YouHaveToBelieveMe You don't know him like me]], who had him under my orders. If you give Spain to him now, he will think it is his and will not let anyone take his place, not in the war nor after it, until his death.

-> However [[UsefulNotes/WorldWarTwo this war]] may end, we have won [[UsefulNotes/TheHolocaust the war against you]]; no one will be left to bear witness. But even if some were to survive, the world would not believe them. There will perhaps be suspicions, discussions, research by historians, but there will be no certainties, because we will destroy the evidence together with you. And even if some proof should remain and some of you survive, people will say the events you describe are too monstrous to be believed: they will say that they are the exaggerations of Allied propaganda and will believe us--who will deny everything--and not you. We will be the ones to dictate the history of the Lagers.

-> I remember when ''VideoGame/MightyNo9'' was on kickstarter, and everyone was going apeshit over it. I was saying, "Guys? Inafune was the ''PRODUCER'' of Megaman. He was neither the director nor the head designer, he's the ''business'' guy. Not the creative guy." I even pointed out that games like ''VideoGame/MegamanBattleNetwork4'' have his name on it. But nobody listened. Fast forward to 2016 and... well...

-->-- '''SS officer''', quoted in ''The Drowned and the Saved'' by [[IfThisIsAMan Primo Levi]]