Luthen Rael, Andor

Calm. Kindness, kinship. Love. I’ve given up all chance at inner peace, I’ve made my mind a sunless space. I share my dreams with ghosts. I wake up every day to an equation I wrote 15 years ago from which there’s only one conclusion: I’m damned for what I do. My anger, my ego, my unwillingness to yield, my eagerness to fight, they’ve set me on a path from which there is no escape. I yearned to be a savior against injustice without contemplating the cost, and by the time I looked down, there was no longer any ground beneath my feet.

What is… what is my sacrifice? I’m condemned to use the tools of my enemy to defeat them. I burn my decency for someone else’s future. I burn my life, to make a sunrise that I know I’ll never see. No, the ego that started this fight will never have a mirror, or an audience, or the light of gratitude. So what do I sacrifice?

Everything!

Robert A. Heinlein - Gulf

If the average man thinks at all, he does silly things like generalizing from a single datum. He uses one-valued logics. If he is exceptionally bright, he may use two-valued, 'either-or' logic to arrive at his wrong answers. If he is hungry, hurt, or personally interested in the answer, he can't use any sort of logic and will discard an observed fact as blithely as he will stake his life on a piece of wishful thinking. He uses the technical miracles created by superior men without wonder nor surprise, as a kitten accepts a bowl of milk. Far from aspiring to higher reasoning, he is not even aware that higher reasoning exists. He classes his own mental proccess as being of the same sort as the genius of an Einstein. Man is not a rational animal; he is a rationalizing animal.

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Robert A. Heinlein - Friday

My grandparents used to tell me about a time when people were polite and nobody hesitated to be outdoors at night and people often didn't even lock their doors-much less surround their homes with fences and walls and barbed wire and lasers. Maybe so; I'm not old enough to remember it. It seems to me that, all my life, things have grown worse and worse.

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Robert A. Heinlein - Revolt in 2100, Postscript

The capacity for the human mind for swalling nonsense and spewing it forth in violent and repressive action has never yet been plumbed.

A dozen Heinlein quotations for sci fi day

Robert A. Heinlein - Friday

It is not written in the stars that I will always understand what is going on — a truism that I often find damnably annoying.

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Robert A. Heinlein - Time Enough For Love

Throughout history, poverty is the normal condition of man. Advances which permit this norm to be exceeded — here and there, now and then — are the work of an extremely small minority, frequently despised, often condemned, and almost always opposed by all right-thinking people. Whenever this tiny minority is kept from creating, or (as sometimes happens) is driven out of a society, the people then slip back into abject poverty.

This is known as "bad luck"...

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Robert A. Heinlein - Lazarus Long in Expanded Universe

Being intelligent is not a felony, but most societies evaluate it as at least a misdemeanor.

A dozen Heinlein quotations for sci fi day

Robert A. Heinlein - To Sail Beyond the Sunset

But there seems to have been an actual decline in rational thinking. The United States had become a place where entertainers and professional athletes were mistaken for people of importance. They were idolized and treated as leaders; their opinions were sought on everything and they took themselves just as seriously — after all, if an athlete is paid a million or more a year, he knows he is important … so his opinions of foreign affairs and domestic policies must be important, too, even though he proves himself to be both ignorant and subliterate every time he opens his mouth. (Most of his fans were just as ignorant and unlettered; the disease was spreading.)

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Din Djarin, The Mandalorian

I only know of this weapon what you taught me. To be honest, it means nothing to me or my people. Nor does station or bloodline. What means more to me is honor. And loyalty. And character. These are the reasons I serve you, Lady Kryze. Your song is not yet written. I will serve you until it is.

Griffin McElroy

When someone leaves your life, those exits are not made equal. Some are beautiful and poetic and satisfying. Others are abrupt and unfair. But most are just unremarkable, unintentional, clumsy.

Karis Nemik's Manifesto, Andor

There will be times when the struggle seems impossible. I know this already. Alone, unsure, dwarfed by the scale of the enemy. Remember this. Freedom is a pure idea. It occurs spontaneously and without instruction. Random acts of insurrection are occurring constantly throughout the galaxy. There are whole armies, battalions that have no idea that they've already enlisted in the cause. Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward. And then remember this. The Imperial need for control is so desperate because it is so unnatural. Tyranny requires constant effort. It breaks, it leaks. Authority is brittle. Oppression is the mask of fear. Remember that. And know this, the day will come when all these skirmishes and battles, these moments of defiance will have flooded the banks of the Empire's authority and then there will be one too many. One single thing will break the siege. Remember this. Try.

Larry Miller as Walter Stratford, 10 Things I Hate About You

You know, fathers don't like to admit it when their daughters are capable of running their own lives. It means we've become spectators. Bianca still let's me play a few innings. You've had me on the bench for years. When you go to Sarah Lawrence, I won't even be able to watch the game.

Julia Stiles as Kat Stratford, 10 Things I Hate About You

I hate the way you talk to me, and the way you cut your hair. I hate the way you drive my car. I hate it when you stare. I hate your big dumb combat boots, and the way you read my mind. I hate you so much it makes me sick; it even makes me rhyme.

I hate it, I hate the way you're always right. I hate it when you lie. I hate it when you make me laugh, even worse when you make me cry.

I hate it when you're not around, and the fact that you didn't call.

But mostly I hate the way I don't hate you. Not even close, not even a little bit, not even at all.

Heath Ledger as Patrick Verona, 10 Things I Hate About You

Patrick Verona: I had some extra money lying around. Some asshole paid me to take out this really great girl.

Kat Stratford: Is that right?

Patrick Verona: Yeah, but I screwed up. I fell for her.

Larry Miller as Walter Stratford, 10 Things I Hate About You

I'm down, I've got the 411, and you are not going out and getting jiggy with some boy, I dont care how dope his ride is.

Heath Ledger as Patrick Verona, 10 Things I Hate About You

Don't let anyone ever make you feel like you don't deserve what you want.

Heath Ledger as Patrick Verona, 10 Things I Hate About You

Patrick Verona: Well maybe you're not afraid of me but I'm sure you've thought about me naked, huh?

Kat Stratford: [sarcastically] Am I that transparent? I want you, I need you, oh baby, oh baby.

Joseph Gordon-Levitt as Cameron James, 10 Things I Hate About You

Cameron James: Would any of you be interested in dating Katarina Stratford?

Guy: Maybe if we were the last two people alive, and there were no sheep. Are there sheep?

Julia Stiles as Kat Stratford, 10 Things I Hate About You

Ms. Perky: People perceive you as somewhat…

Kat Stratford: Tempestuous?

Ms. Perky: Heinous bitch is the term used most often. You might wanna work on that.

Julia Stiles as Kat Stratford, 10 Things I Hate About You

I guess in this society being male and an asshole makes you worthy of our time.