I know you're not as crazy as you like to make people think, but here is the best spoken paragraph of any movie ever made. Your latest thread reminded me of it:
"They don't fear us because we have
the power to kill, they fear us
because we have the power to kill
arbitrarily. A man commits a crime,
he should know better. We have him
killed, we feel pretty good about
it. Or we kill him ourselves and we
feel even better. That's not power,
though, that's justice. That's
different than power. Power is when
we have every justification to kill --
and we don't. That's power. That's
what the emperors had. A man stole
something, he's brought in before
the emperor, he throws himself down
on the floor, he begs for mercy, he
knows he's going to die... and the
emperor pardons him. This worthless
man. He lets him go. That's power.
That's power."
-Schindler,
Schindler's List
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