The War On Straw/Quotes

""I OPPOSE THE CARTOONIST'S BELIEFS WITH MY ENTIRE BEING I AM NEUROTIC AND TOTALLY ILLOGICAL""

- Straw man, I AM SILLY (comic)

""The history of the thing might amuse you," he said. "When first I became one of the New Anarchists I tried all kinds of respectable disguises. I dressed up as a bishop. I read up all about bishops in our anarchist pamphlets, in Superstition the Vampire and Priests of Prey. I certainly understood from them that bishops are strange and terrible old men keeping a cruel secret from mankind. I was misinformed. When on my first appearing in episcopal gaiters in a drawing-room I cried out in a voice of thunder, 'Down! down! presumptuous human reason!' they found out in some way that I was not a bishop at all. I was nabbed at once. Then I made up as a millionaire; but I defended Capital with so much intelligence that a fool could see that I was quite poor. Then I tried being a major. Now I am a humanitarian myself, but I have, I hope, enough intellectual breadth to understand the position of those who, like Nietzsche, admire violence — the proud, mad war of Nature and all that, you know. I threw myself into the major. I drew my sword and waved it constantly. I called out 'Blood!' abstractedly, like a man calling for wine. I often said, 'Let the weak perish; it is the Law.' Well, well, it seems majors don't do this. I was nabbed again.""

- Gregory Syme, explaining his failed attempts to go undercover, The Man Who Was Thursday

""It must be amazingly useful to be able to rebuild your opponents, one strand of hay at a time, so that they can be just light enough to easily battle, but just visually close enough to fool others into believing that the scale is correct.""

- Quinton Reviews on GradeAUnderA's Ad Hominem attacks, How GradeA Lost His Groove (Part 2)