Douglas Quaid: Come on, Cohaagen! You got what you want. Give those people air! Vilos Cohaagen: My friend, in five minutes, you won't give a shit about the people. Fire it up, Doc! Richter: Excuse me, Doctor, is he gonna remember any of this? Doctor:...
Johnny: Why would youse wanna be the same as everybody else? Ariel: 'Cause everybody else goes trick-or-treating. Sarah: What's that? Ariel: It's what they do here for Halloween. Johnny: What do you mean? Like, help the Halloween party? Christy: No. ...
Buford "Mad Dog" Tannen: Smile, Marshall. After all, this *is* a party! Marshall Strickland: The only party I'll be smilin' at is the one that sees you at the end of a rope. Strickland's Deputy: Have fun. [Buford and his gang head toward the town fes...
Politics is the reflex of the business and industrial world.
Politics is a highly tribal business.
Politics is the enemy of the imagination.
Money in politics is a huge issue.
In Pakistan politics is hereditary.
Politics is not really my thing.
I'm not a big politics guy.
Politics is not a world for the squeamish or fainthearted.
Politics is not about power.
To me, politics is a pile of tricks.
I have not the smarts or patience for political office.
I took the money and passed the box across the counter and said politely, ‘Your choice of colour really lacks style.’ I smiled and Beth laughed and the guy asked to see my manager. I got Bert and he leant over the box and looked at the paint and ...
It's illegal to forcefully take money from people unless you're the government. It's illegal to take someone's liberty, unless you're the government. It's illegal to kill someone, unless you're the government. Private organizations can do everything ...
Men have been adjudicating on what women are, and how they should behave, for millennia through the institutions of social control such as religion, the medical profession, psychoanalysis, the sex industry. Feminists have fought to remove the definit...
The conservatives had started bringing demagoguery to the table on the [Afghan] war issue the previous fall [fall 2006]. Whenever opposition members criticized the war policy, assorted Tories accused them of being disloyal and of failing to support t...
Great hope has no real footing unless one is willing to face into the doom that may also be on the way. p.207
If you grow up in a WEIRD society, you become so well educated in the ethic of autonomy that you can detect oppression and inequality even where the apparent victims see nothing wrong.
We define our identity always in dialogue with, sometimes in struggle against, the things our significant others want to see in us. Even after we outgrow some of these others—our parents, for instance—and they disappear from our lives, the conver...
