Vindicated by History/Quotes

""The flattery of posterity is not worth much more than contemporary flattery, which is worth nothing.""

- Jorge Luis Borges, "Dead Men's Dialogue", Dreamtigers

""The passages of Shakespeare that we most prize were never quoted until within this century.""

- Ralph Waldo Emerson, Letters and Social Aims (1876), Quotation and Originality

""Here’s the good news. Pinkshirts are mostly too intellectually turgid to make a case for the other side, and can rarely resist the temptation to use the soapbox. Great stories, the ones that stand the test of time, are multi-sided grand arguments about the human condition that consist of a combination of character, plot, setting, theme, and genre. Their meaning and their beauty is derived from the way in which those elements combust and resolve. Big ideas, solid craft, and a compelling narrative will always triumph in the end over political agitprop.""

- Pink Shirt Propaganda vs. Blue SF/F Storytelling by Scooter

"If, in 1688, you had insisted that the concept of a “constitutional monarchy” was a contradiction in terms, that “constitutional” simply meant “symbolic” and the upshot of the whole scheme would simply be a return to the rule of Parliament, you were a Jacobite. Plain and simple. And you were also dead wrong — for about two centuries. Most of the royal powers died with George III, but even Queen Victoria exercised a surprising amount of authority over the operations of “her” government. No longer."

- Mencius Moldbug., An Open Letter to Open-Minded Progressives (Chapter 3: The Jacobite History of the World)

"When all its work is done, the lie shall rot; The truth is great, and shall prevail, When none cares whether it prevail or not."

- Coventry Patmore, Magna Est Veritas