Remember, remember
Remember, remember
ID: V from V for Vendetta saying "people should not be afraid of their governments, governments should be afraid of their people"
Bonus image:
Full quote:
“Authority, when first detecting chaos at its heels, will entertain the vilest schemes to save its orderly facade but always order without justice, without love or liberty, which cannot long postpone their world's descent to pandemonium.
Authority's collapse sends cracks through bedroom, boardroom, church and school alike. All misrule. Equality and Freedom are not luxuries to lightly cast aside. Without them, order cannot long endure before approaching depths beyond imagining.”
I feel like I look like a 14 year old edgelord when I tell people how much I love that movie, but there are so many great nuggets in both the dialogue and story.
I would say a 14 year old edgelord couldn't begin to appreciate this movie or the ideas in it (that isn't to say any 14 year olds, just the edgelords).
Either way, you shouldn't give a fuck, it's a great and meaningful film (I've not read the graphic novel myself, but I only hear good things) that should be required viewing, not something to be embarrassed about liking.
Alan Moore is edgy as shit, but also he’s very correct about a lot.
His V laden intro is fantastic and the film is great, not looking so edgy these days
Since mankind's dawn, a handful of oppressors have accepted the responsibility over our lives that we should have accepted for ourselves. By doing so, they took our power. By doing nothing, we gave it away. We've seen where their way leads, through camps and wars, towards the slaughterhouse.
…There are of course those who do not want us to speak. I suspect even now, orders are being shouted into telephones, and men with guns will soon be on their way. Why? Because while the truncheon may be used in lieu of conversation, words will always retain their power. Words offer the means to meaning, and for those who will listen, the enunciation of truth. And the truth is, there is something terribly wrong with this country, isn’t there? Cruelty and injustice, intolerance and oppression…
So many great quotes..
If you haven't already, I invite you all to read the graphic novel
Here's the television studio scene as a taste:
Sorry I prefer a more syndicalist political lifestyle where we are the government. "The people should not be afraid of the people, the people should be afraid of the people." breaks my brain.
as long as any government holds anything secret the people will always distrust and see them as other.
The government should just be us administering our collective power
Maybe fear shouldn't be the driving force if we want to make progress as a society.
Maybe if we weren't already controlled by fear your point would have some merit, but we are, and it is a complete impossibility to break free from oppression without fighting back.
You should maybe arm yourself then?
Happy Bonfire Night everybody! 🔥🎆
Hope you've got your Guy Fawkes effigies ready to go, I like to stuff mine with newspaper :-D