With Us or Against Us/Quotes

You are either with us or with the terrorists.

—George W. Bush

He takes a card and shades one half of it in dark
So he can demonstrate to you just what he means.
He says, "There's black and there is white,
And there is wrong, and there is right,
And there is nothing, nothing in between."
That's what Mr. A said.

—Alan Moore, "Mr. A"

There can be no bystanders in the battle for survival. Those who refuse to fight alongside you are yet more enemies that must be crushed utterly.

—Warhammer 40,000

You are either for the Emperor or you are his bitter foe.

—Thought For The Day, Warhammer 40,000

He who is not with me is against me, and he who does not gather with me scatters.

—Matthew 12:30

If you hamper the war effort of one side, you automatically help that of the other. Nor is there any real way of remaining outside such a war as the present one. In practice, 'he that is not with me is against me.' The idea that you can somehow remain aloof from and superior to the struggle, while living on food which British sailors have to risk their lives to bring you, is a bourgeois illusion bred of money and security.

—George Orwell

I will consider a declaration of neutrality to be a declaration of war against me.

—Genghis Khan^[context?]

Every inhabitant of the Brigade should either be an active friend or be classed as an enemy.

—J. Franklin Bell

If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the problem.

—Charles Rosner

Not to speak is to speak. Not to act is to act.

—Dietrich Bonhoeffer

It is with absolute frankness that we speak of this struggle of the proletariat; each man must choose between joining our side or the other side. Any attempt to avoid taking sides in this issue must end in fiasco.

—Vladimir Lenin

Every cult and police state does the same cheap trick: "they hate us for our freedoms!" This refers to the devastated wastelands of the outside world, filled with roaming zombies. The message is clear: "stay here and follow The Rules, and you will be safe. Leave, and your death will be slow and nasty."
It is already hard for a single mind to make sense of an infinite and chaotic universe. We depend on others for our sense of reality, even our memories. It is the power of a social species, and also its weakness. An isolated individual is much easier to manipulate.
An antagonistic "them and us" mentality is a red flag. If your company defines itself by hate for its competitors, watch out. With individuals it's harder to see. The first thing you may see (and often, accept as truth) is a "trail of tears."

—The Psychopath Code by Pieter Hintjens, Chapter 4

It is now considered not just to be a public declaration of support but indeed a very public declaration of support for someone to say ‘I decline to heed or to echo malign and false accusations against a man I hardly know, as it is none of my business, and I hate falsehoods’?

—John C. Wright, The Evil League of Evil is Given Pious Advice

And the fellow has the logical abilities of a goldfish in contaminated water.
Geopolitics shills are unemployable losers incapable of reasoning outside the script: if it is not A, then it is B, to counter other shills saying if not B then A.

—Nassim Nicholas Taleb, in a tweet

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