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Not sure if, in my cooler-headed moments, I'd agree with this quote...but after a day like today... (Original Post) WilliamPitt Jan 2014 OP
WOW! What a quote!!! calimary Jan 2014 #1
The version i heard. skamaria Jan 2014 #12
Welcome to DU, skamaria! calimary Jan 2014 #38
Updated for modern times. nt awoke_in_2003 Jan 2014 #41
Good one. jsr Jan 2014 #2
Woo hoo! I haven't heard that one before. Arkansas Granny Jan 2014 #3
I've long agreed with that quote. The_Commonist Jan 2014 #4
+ 100000000000000000000 russspeakeasy Jan 2014 #5
I've already made it into a poster for my office. VPStoltz Jan 2014 #6
That's the tag line at the bottom of my personal emails. Iggo Jan 2014 #7
My sigline on FB nt freebrew Jan 2014 #8
Nice. Iggo Jan 2014 #9
"Ask Not for Whom the Bell Tolls It Tolls for Thee" jtuck004 Jan 2014 #10
Ah, Denis. One of my favorites. malthaussen Jan 2014 #11
but it is the "kings/kochs & co." who run the politicians... hue Jan 2014 #15
Indeed, not all politicians are bad. I don't see any good in losing one like Warren, for example. arcane1 Jan 2014 #18
Politicians = Bad. Statesmen/women = Good. trof Jan 2014 #34
We will always need politicians. Bernardo de La Paz Jan 2014 #23
As a peace loving person i'm not sure... druidity33 Jan 2014 #13
Amen AuntPatsy Jan 2014 #14
K&R! Not just a quote, it's the reality! hue Jan 2014 #16
One of my favorite quotes. The Velveteen Ocelot Jan 2014 #17
He left out corporatists. Hissyspit Jan 2014 #19
It's about resistance to authoritarian powers. scarletwoman Jan 2014 #28
I understand that. Hissyspit Jan 2014 #30
"Was being a bit facetious." - Sorry! I should have known! scarletwoman Jan 2014 #31
Long lived by this quotation. kairos12 Jan 2014 #20
WOW. obxhead Jan 2014 #21
I have that quote on my refrigerator door. Le Taz Hot Jan 2014 #22
Add Shakespear's... 99Forever Jan 2014 #24
That one's not bad, either. scarletwoman Jan 2014 #29
So...what, exactly, happened today? trof Jan 2014 #25
Previous thread: Hissyspit Jan 2014 #32
Ah. Yes. Now I see. krep trof Jan 2014 #33
yet nothing in that thread hfojvt Jan 2014 #36
Figuratively speaking, yes there is. Hissyspit Jan 2014 #37
they tried "haga patria, mate un cura" in El Salvador MisterP Jan 2014 #26
I've always loved that quote. Came across it many years pre-internet. scarletwoman Jan 2014 #27
This is only true after the last bankster is strangled with the entrails of the last king. nt Zorra Jan 2014 #35
I'll drink to that. merrily Jan 2014 #39
Back when the quote was made... awoke_in_2003 Jan 2014 #42
One of my favorite quotes. nt awoke_in_2003 Jan 2014 #40
That's the last straw. Eddie Haskell Jan 2014 #43
LOL. WilliamPitt Jan 2014 #44
, blkmusclmachine Jan 2014 #45
It's so eighteenth century Jack Rabbit Jan 2014 #46

skamaria

(325 posts)
12. The version i heard.
Tue Jan 14, 2014, 06:14 PM
Jan 2014

"Man will not be free until the last politician is strung up on the guts of the last preacher".

calimary

(80,693 posts)
38. Welcome to DU, skamaria!
Tue Jan 14, 2014, 10:35 PM
Jan 2014

Glad you're here! Either way, it's a GREAT quote! And it sure dovetails with how I feel!

The_Commonist

(2,518 posts)
4. I've long agreed with that quote.
Tue Jan 14, 2014, 05:11 PM
Jan 2014

Although I don't think it's that simple.

What really needs to happen is that the last sociopath needs to be strangled with the entrails of the last psychopath. They're running everything and ruining everything. Most people are pretty nice most of the time, and for the most part would like to do the right thing. The socio- and psychopaths have made it so that normal people don't have much of chance anymore. We try to keep up with them, and there's just no way to that for a person with a conscience.

VPStoltz

(1,295 posts)
6. I've already made it into a poster for my office.
Tue Jan 14, 2014, 05:41 PM
Jan 2014

This, along with the cartoon referencing the umbrella saler, are the supremely satisfying.

 

jtuck004

(15,882 posts)
10. "Ask Not for Whom the Bell Tolls It Tolls for Thee"
Tue Jan 14, 2014, 06:05 PM
Jan 2014

John Donne said that, of course, and I reflected on that as I listened to George Carlin suggest to the National Press Club that perhaps, for certain individuals, ritual suicide should make a return. And then I thought...ring that bell.

So, yeah.

malthaussen

(17,065 posts)
11. Ah, Denis. One of my favorites.
Tue Jan 14, 2014, 06:10 PM
Jan 2014

I tend to agree with him on that one most of the time. The only word I might change is "politician" for "king."

-- Mal

 

arcane1

(38,613 posts)
18. Indeed, not all politicians are bad. I don't see any good in losing one like Warren, for example.
Tue Jan 14, 2014, 06:42 PM
Jan 2014

trof

(54,255 posts)
34. Politicians = Bad. Statesmen/women = Good.
Tue Jan 14, 2014, 08:52 PM
Jan 2014

Elizabeth Warren is a stateswoman.
Bernie Sanders is a statesman.

Bernardo de La Paz

(48,773 posts)
23. We will always need politicians.
Tue Jan 14, 2014, 07:19 PM
Jan 2014

Ultimately, politicians and political science are how we humans mediate limited resources and unlimited desires.

druidity33

(6,435 posts)
13. As a peace loving person i'm not sure...
Tue Jan 14, 2014, 06:22 PM
Jan 2014

and as a cynic i'd say i guess their would be some authoritarian figures that would replace the priests and kings. Presidents and ministers perhaps...

As far as Diderot quotes i prefer this one (as the father of a 12 year old devious tween):
"All children are essentially criminal"

Yours is cute now but just you wait!




scarletwoman

(31,893 posts)
28. It's about resistance to authoritarian powers.
Tue Jan 14, 2014, 08:08 PM
Jan 2014

Diderot lived in the 18th century. His quote applies to ALL oppressors of the common human.

Hissyspit

(45,788 posts)
30. I understand that.
Tue Jan 14, 2014, 08:24 PM
Jan 2014

Was being a bit facetious.

1751: Diderot publishes first volume of Encyclopedie, much of the final work compiled clandestinely, some of it destroyed before publication.

He was speaking figuratively, with not just a little bit of justified anger.

Probably he would not have known the word "corporatists," (or if he did, it meant something different from my intent) and the more correct term for me to have used, anyway, would be "corporationists," "corporizationists," or "corporatocrats," or maybe "Neo-liberals," "Neo-cons," or just "fascists."



scarletwoman

(31,893 posts)
31. "Was being a bit facetious." - Sorry! I should have known!
Tue Jan 14, 2014, 08:33 PM
Jan 2014

I was feeling a bit non-plussed by some of the responses on this thread - and ended up picking on you, duh. I guess because I know and love you.

99Forever

(14,524 posts)
24. Add Shakespear's...
Tue Jan 14, 2014, 07:29 PM
Jan 2014
"The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers"

... and we're making real progress.

scarletwoman

(31,893 posts)
29. That one's not bad, either.
Tue Jan 14, 2014, 08:10 PM
Jan 2014

Although there are human rights lawyers I would definitely exempt. But they did not exist in Shakespeare's time.

scarletwoman

(31,893 posts)
27. I've always loved that quote. Came across it many years pre-internet.
Tue Jan 14, 2014, 08:03 PM
Jan 2014

Probably in one of my college philosophy courses - back in the late 60s.

As a metaphor for resistance to authoritarianism, it's absolutely timeless and always apt.

Eddie Haskell

(1,628 posts)
43. That's the last straw.
Wed Jan 15, 2014, 02:00 PM
Jan 2014

If I were to post a similar thread about Rabbis, I'd be censored; but bashing Catholicism is acceptable.

Don't let me catch you on the street.

 

WilliamPitt

(58,179 posts)
44. LOL.
Wed Jan 15, 2014, 02:01 PM
Jan 2014

OK, tough guy. Thanks for the warning.

P.S. At the time of this quote, the priests were the equivalent of modern bankers.

Think about it.

P.S. You're also talking to someone who has defended the Catholic church left and right around here.

White hot heat, tough guy, usually translates into stupid.

Jack Rabbit

(45,984 posts)
46. It's so eighteenth century
Wed Jan 15, 2014, 04:56 PM
Jan 2014

Man will never be free until the last corporate executive is strangled with the entrails of the last crooked politician.

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