All Quotes

"It took me a long time to understand why so much that surrounded me was too ugly to tolerate without protest. But eventually I learned the reason. I saw that the conduct of my fellow-men could not be otherwise than disappointing, in fact parasitical and corrupt, and that most of our troubles emanated from a cause which manifestly would grow worse so long as we put up with it. That cause was Capitalism. Man's natural self-interest become perverted and ruthless! The motivating principle of business (though not openly confessed), when summed up, meant: "Get yours; never mind the other fellow." I saw, too, that our law-makers and judges of the meaning of the law put property rights first and left human rights to shift for themselves."

"Capitalism has always been a failure for the lower classes. It is now beginning to fail for the middle classes."

"Let's take the case of slavery. While capitalism legitimizes itself as the economic system that implies and furthers personal freedom (as a condition of market exchange), it generated slavery on its own, as part of its own dynamics: although slavery became almost extinct at the end of the Middle Ages, it re-emerged in colonies from early modernity till the American Civil War. And one can risk the hypothesis that today, with the new epoch of global capitalism, a new era of slavery is also arising. Although there is no longer a direct legal category of enslaved persons, slavery acquires a multitude of new forms: millions of migrant workers in the Saudi peninsula (UAE, Qatar, etc.), who are deprived of elementary civil rights and freedoms and subjected to restricted mobility; the total control of millions of workers in Asian sweatshops, often consciously organized as concentration camps; the massive use of forced labor in the exploitation of natural resources in many Central African states (Congo, etc.). This new de facto apartheid, this systematic explosion of a number of different forms of contemporary slavery, is not a deplorable accident but a structural necessity of today's global capitalism."

"September 11, 2001 - A Failure of Conscience Buildings can be rebuilt, no matter what the size. The void in sky is not just the absence of buildings, but the loss of faith in the human conscience. We hold out hope that this, too, can be rebuilt."

"Dealing with the constant conflict between the time Megatokyo needs, the time my day job as an architect requires, and the small in-between moments that are left for Seraphim and myself... I won't lie, it's been a hard balancing act. But it's always been worth it, because i feel that Megatokyo is something to be proud of (even with all it's problems). Unfortunately, something happened Monday that changed this balance drastically... Monday afternoon I was laid off."

"There are no ski lifts in the world of creativity. You gotta haul your own ass up the slope every time you want to come back down it. It's not so bad, the more you climb up, the stronger you get, and the higher you can go, which makes for better runs."

"The world doesn't need more warm bodies, it needs happier people."

"Life is about contrast. You can usualy find humor in almost everything you do. Sometimes, things just aren't funny."

"What you say in the games is scripted, and the actions the protagonist takes are often things that a player might wish he'd do, but often never would in real life. Hell, just the act of talking to a girl, something that seems to happen in these games without thought, is something most players are almost incapable of doing. Add to that the fact that you are often dealing with several girls, all of whom you are chasing to one degree or another. Maybe the problem isn't that the situations in the games (lots of girls who may be interested in you) isn't phony, maybe it's the actions of the protagonist (guided by the player) that are the biggest fantasy of all."

"yknow, now that i think about it, the greeks were pretty Emo, weren't they?"

"I'm not negative, I just have a fail-friendly way of looking at the world."

"They don't build these things like they used to.. One stray H.E.A.T. round and down they go."

"She's not a person, Largo, she's a commodity. Be happy for her. At least commodities are worth something."

"All men are fanboys. You need to stop being so prissy and learn how to benefit from it."

"About Hentai: "Well, at least the monster seems to always make sure the girl's satisfied""

"This is my life. My game. My rules. If you want to be a part of it, you will respect that."

"Flight attendant: "Sir, please, it's against airline policy to use the headphone cord to strangle a fellow passenger." - "Just gimme five more minutes...""

"Flight attendant: "Does anyone here speak l33t?" - "j0""

"There it was! A AMD Athlon CPU that wasn't being overclocked! This was a crime! I felt that I had to right this injustice!"

"Ph34r my l33t n3kkid skillz!!!"

"But, we lack b33r. Ph34r my l4ck of b33r!"

"I am Great Teacher Largo!!!! Ph33r my l33t t34ching ski||z! Why? Why learn? Why submit yourself to Great Teacher Largo?? What is in it for you? I will tell you... Because knowl3dg3 is pow3r!!"

"Video games are a conduit for the soul. They expand our lives, channel our imagination, test our skillz. Games exist as a channel for the boundless energy of people all over the world. It is a medium you are incapable of understanding."

"It has a secret program of ultimate destruction. All Sonys do."

"Kimiko: "I've been a klutz all evening. I don't know what's wrong with me." Megumi: "That's easy. You're a little 'unbalanced'." "Aaaaagh!!!! Oh my god how embarrassing! That does it! I'm not wearing these things anymore." "Oh... you poor girl. You really do need them, don't you?" "Don't be such a meanie...""

"You vomited, I took that for a 'yes'."

"Shoujo manga has helped me with so many problems. All I need to do is read until I find a similar situation and it will tell me everything I need to know."

"Pirogoeth: "Please don't wave dead things in my face, or I'll hurt you.""

"Even when they have digital readouts, I can't understand them."

"'I wish I was never born' is too expensive for my budget, but I think I can swing this."

"I don't get it. What is it about a school uniform that turns fanboys like you into drooling morons?"

"Sometimes you just gotta go with whatya got! Pathetic people need love too!"

"Two jail breaks, unauthorized Rent-A-Zilla usage, operating a Zilla without a license, deploying an opposing force without a permit, deployment of defensive weaponry without a license, illegal use of duct tape... You've been busy."

"Your actions constitute severe violations of many local ordinances and national laws... Not to mention several international treaties and the Android Rights Act of 1978. Ever consider a career in cataclysm management? Lemme buy you a beer."

"Please flee in terror in an orderly manner!"

"Give me a city block to rebuild anyday. Some things just can't be fixed."

"Never let anything become a zombie that's difficult to kill."

"Largo: "Up in the sky! It's raining zombies!" Dom: "The explosion Ed set off must have formed an interdimensional rift. We've duplicated this in the Sega Labs before - it's where the Sega CD came from.""

"Piro, I've been thinking..." - "Aren't there laws against that?"

"Largo: "Don't you ever think that there might be more to life than just games?" "You mean like finding a girlfriend, getting out of debt, moving ahead in our careers, stuff like that?" "Yea." "There was a sim game about that, wasn't there?" "Yea, it sucked." "'Nuff said.""

"Piro: "Nice mullet. Do all your heroes look like 'MacGyver'?" - "There are no more heroes.""

"Largo: "This scene is saying, 'I am lame.' " "This scene is saying, 'I am really lame.' " "This scene says, 'This is the lamest thing that ever crawled out of the lamest hole on the planet where all lameness was originally spawned in the known universe.' " Piro: "And having a girl break your arm in three places wasn't lame?" Largo: "Nah, that was cool.""

"Largo: "Chill, dude. I'm sure we'll get deported eventually. Remember that roadtrip we took to Canada?" "Actually, I was kind of hoping to avoid that experience again..." "Hey come on... we got handcuffed by real Mounties! That was cool.""

"The major capitalist countries faced a stark choice: deepen socialistic reform, public ownership and initiative, and invest in the still growing Third World to expand demand so as to keep growth going or, as the neoliberals in their think tanks bankrolled by capital and some politicians already converted to the new creed recommended, lift postwar restrictions on capital, now blamed for the growth slowdown, at home and campaign to lift them abroad. The former favoured working people the world over while the latter favoured capital and its comprador allies in the Third World. Capital won. Though union density and the political strength of the historic parties of labour and the left were at historic highs, the left was intellectually too weak to present viable alternatives. Over the post-war decades, non-Communist working class parties and organisations in the major capitalist countries ‘had no economic policy of their own’ and had focused only on ‘improving the condi- tions of their working-class constituencies’ through reliance ‘on a strong wealth- creating capitalist economy to finance their aims’ (Hobsbawm 1994, 272)."

"While the balance of class power remains heavily tilted in favour of capital in its homelands, the balance of international power is tilting markedly away from capitalism, driving all outside the charmed circle of the United States, Europe, Japan and the settler colonies bit by bit, with advances and reverses, steadily away from the major capitalist countries and probably, from capitalism. This process began with the Russian Revolution and, after the reverses of the 1990s, resumed in the new century as an alliance of countries seeking to assert their economic and security sovereignty—including Russia, Venezuela, Cuba and Iran—began forming with China as its economic centre. The pandemic and the war have accelerated these processes. The United States’ proxy war on Russia acts as a prism that refracts the key elements of the underlying unfolding of the geopolitical economy of capitalism and socialism. It constitutes a resumé of the state of the United states’-declining imperial project, of the balance between US capacities and the possibilities and constraints imposed by the world’s geopolitical economy."

"Hey Gorby, did you hear this quote ... "Communism is the most painful path between capitalism and capitalism.""

"As for the explanation that fascism is a last desperate attempt of capitalism to delay the socialist revolution, it simply is not true. It is not true that ‘big business’ promoted fascism. On the contrary, both in Italy and in Germany the proportion of fascist sympathizers and backers was smallest in the industrial and financial classes. It is equally untrue that ‘big business’ profits from fascism; of all the classes it probably suffers most from totalitarian economics and Wehrwirtschaft."

"Capitalism designates an economic system significantly characterized by the predominance of "capital." Capitalism and double entry bookkeeping are absolutely indissociable; their relationship to each other is that of form to content."

"[P]rofits are so completely subordinated in [[Nazi Germany|[Nazi] Germany]] and [[w:Fascist Italy|[Fascist] Italy]] to requirements of a militarily conceived national interest and of full employment that the maintenance of the profit principle is purely theoretical. Profits have lost their autonomy as an independent, not to say the supreme, goal of economic activity."

"We face a probable future of nuclear-armed states warring over a scarcity of resources; and that scarcity is largely the consequence of capitalism itself. For the first time in history, our prevailing form of life has the power not simply to breed racism and spread cultural cretinism, drive us into war or herd us into labour camps, but to wipe us from the planet. Capitalism will behave antisocially if it is profitable for it to do so, and that can now mean human devastation on an unimaginable scale. What used to be apocalyptic fantasy is today no more than sober realism. The traditional leftist slogan "Socialism or barbarism" was never more grimly apposite."