• RBWells@lemmy.world
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    I also would say Hayes Carll, in the American Dream song (though it’s partly the delivery)

    “Nothing changes, even if it wants to.”

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    All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain.

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      23 hours ago

      Somewhat famously this line (the entire soliloquy actually) was improvised by Rutger Hauer in the moment, so not strictly written down. Just taking the piss mate, best fucking movie ever!

  • c0wboy dani@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    “Let every dirty, lousy tramp arm himself with a revolver or a knife, and lay in wait on the steps of the palaces of the rich and stab or shoot the owners as they come out.”

    - Lucy Parsons

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    Personally I think the golden rule it has many variations.

    e.g. What you do not wish for yourself, do not do to others.

    Then another is from V for Vendetta

    Beneath this mask, there is more than flesh. Beneath this mask, there is an idea, Mr Creedy. And ideas are bullet-proof!

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    “He who fights monsters must see that he doesn’t become a monster himself. For when you stare into the abyss, the abyss stares back at you.”

    Friedrich Nietzsche