Friday Quotes XXX (I feel so pregnable)

Happiness isn't good enough for me! I want euphoria! ~ Calvin and Hobbes

She got past my force field, my impregnable forcefield, I...I feel so pregnable. ~ Superboy (when Batgirl punched him)

David only nails Goliath in the Bible…in real life Goliath swats the rock away, stomps David into a mudhole, and goes home to his mansion. ~ Michael Newnham

...[a] racist is one who is both privileged and socialized on the basis of race by a white supremacist (racist) system. The term applies to all white people (i.e., people of European descent) living in the United States, regardless of class, gender, religion, culture or sexuality. ~ former University of Delaware handbook

...those in denial use the term reverse racism to refer to hostile behavior by people of color toward whites, and to affirmative action policies, which allegedly give ‘preferential treatment’ to people of color over whites...there is no such thing as ‘reverse racism.’ ~ former University of Delaware handbook

If there is any fixed star in our constitutional constellation, it is that no official, high or petty, can prescribe what shall be orthodox in politics, nationalism, religion, or other matters of opinion or force citizens to confess by word or act their faith therein. ~ Justice Robert H. Jackson - West Virginia State Board of Education v. Barnette (1943).

Coito ergo sum

Cum catapultae proscriptae erat, tum soli proscript catapultas habeunt. ~ (If catapaults are outlawed, then only outlaws will only have catapaults.)

Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? ~ (Who will guard the guards?) - Roman poet Juvenal

They will guard themselves against themselves. We must tell the guardians a noble lie. The noble lie will inform them that they are better than those they serve and it is therefore their responsibility to guard and protect those lesser than themselves. We will instill in them a distaste for power or privilege, they will rule because they believe it right, not because they desire it. ~ Plato