“In times of universal deceit, telling the truth will be a revolutionary act.”

-- George Orwell

"A million bureaucrats are diligently plotting death and some of them even know it."

--Thomas Pynchon

"I am Spartacus!"

-- Khalid Shaikh Mohammed

"Then did he raise on high the Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch, saying, 'Bless this, O Lord, that with it thou mayst blow thine enemies to tiny bits, in thy mercy.' And the people did rejoice and did feast upon the lambs and toads and tree-sloths and fruit-bats and orangutans and breakfast cereals ... "

"Now did the Lord say, 'First thou pullest the Holy Pin. Then thou must count to three. Three shall be the number of the counting and the number of the counting shall be three. Four shalt thou not count, neither shalt thou count two, excepting that thou then proceedeth to three. Five is right out. Once the number three, being the number of the counting, be reached, then lobbest thou the Holy Hand Grenade in the direction of thine foe, who, being naughty in my sight, shall snuff it.' "

--Monty Python and the Holy Grail

“Now about those ghosts. I'm sure they're here and I'm not half so alarmed at meeting up with any of them as I am at having to meet the live nuts I have to see every day.”

-- Bess Truman

"To preach the Gospel requires that the preacher should 
believe that he is sent to those whom he is addressing at the 
moment, because God has among them those whom He is at the 
moment calling; it requires that the speaker should expect a 
response."
  
-- Roland Allen