Tom Anderson > Quotes

“Thus the chief purpose of art education for life is to help students understand something about themselves and others through art and thereby contribute to personal growth, social progress, and a sense of global community.”
― Tom Anderson, Art for Life: Authentic Instruction in Art

“Currency is… a shared delusion in the minds of all men, a necessary delusion if civilised society were not to fall… yet so many lives, so many cities and kingdoms and nations, ultimately depend on hoping that no man ever stops to wonder why he values discs of a shiny yellow metal so highly…”   -”
― Tom Anderson, Uncharted Territory

“Monsieur Lisieux would seek to arbitrarily carve up Europe into units based on the alleged blood kinship of its inhabitants, regardless of what all historical and legal precedent say, to speak nothing of simple convenience…” - Letter from a Concerned Gentleman #35, John Churchill, Duke of Marlborough – published 1804, later mockingly quoted in The North Briton, 1810   *”
― Tom Anderson, Uncharted Territory

“A little mathematical paradox that no tyrant has ever solved: I have three enemies. I have them all brutally and publicly executed. Now have many enemies have I got? The correct answer is usually in the region of ‘seventy-nine’.” –”
― Tom Anderson, Equal and Opposite Reactions

“It is possible to assemble a roomful of the great and the good from across a city or a region, task them to debate the problems of that region and come up with solutions, and end up with them taking three hours arguing about whether tea or coffee should be served at break time. The success (in their own eyes) of many rulers throughout history has rested upon ensuring there is always a choice of refreshments.”–Pablo Sanchez, On Democracy, 1851”
― Tom Anderson, Cometh the Hour...

“Of course now I realise I was wrong to take what the Irish books said at face value anyway; the Irish would deliberately paint a black picture of the English and indeed the English government would encourage that, and vice versa; anything to emphasise the difference between the two nations’ identities, even if in geopolitical terms they are firm allies.”
― Tom Anderson, Cometh the Hour...

“While the primary riot shall be held in Liége (now Luik) itself (and shall be broadcast live in the Kingdom of Ireland on the Iodadh Motostream), smaller riots shall be held around the world. In Ireland the principal events shall be in Dublin, Belfast and Cork, but consult your local papers for additional events that may be organised nearer to where you live.”
― Tom Anderson, Equal and Opposite Reactions

“Many treatises have been written on the gulf in thinking between the Greens and Purples that led to the split (if they can ever have been said to be united), but by far the most famous is The Green and the Purple: Strange Bedfellows, an anonymously-penned sequence in the pro-New Tory political magazine The Professional:”
― Tom Anderson, Equal and Opposite Reactions

“Its President was Warren Hastings, who ruled with a rod of iron in one hand and a blank cheque from London in the other.[”
― Tom Anderson, Cometh the Hour...

“the Iverson Proposal, adopted in 1978 under the name Propagation Protocol A, instead sees endless copies of the work published and readily available, sometimes forcing children to read it in schools… while the work is always published with co-commentary demolishing each of the author’s points in turn, the real power of the Protocol is to turn what could be a dangerous book into something repellently boring, whether it be dull schoolwork or the lunatic on the corner forcing a tract into your hand… something you would never want your conscious mind to touch. And so the virus of Societism is contained and the will of Sanchez frustrated…”
― Tom Anderson, Cometh the Hour...

“But the real farcical aspect to the ‘war’ was that neither candidate wanted to be Tsar. Theodore was strongly Legitimist on the grounds that interfering with the succession would create instability and uncertainty for the future; he was aware of Constantine’s issues, but thought they could be ironed out if Theodore became his advisor. Constantine, on the other hand, felt no strong attachment to Russia, had no interest in ruling the country which had swallowed up his father, and was willing to fight to remain in his place in Lithuania. Thus this was the only War of Succession in history where the two claimants were trying to put each other on the throne.”
― Tom Anderson, Equal and Opposite Reactions

“The man who judges two equally brutal oppressors to be different, merely because they wear different faces, does not deserve freedom from oppression”.–Pablo Sanchez, The Winter of Nations, 1851”
― Tom Anderson, Cometh the Hour...

“Ideology, the most insidious of evils to afflict our world. Those masses who yearn for freedom and liberty will soon find themselves enslaved by Freedom and Liberty.”   —George”
― Tom Anderson, Diverge and Conquer

“On the way to scouting out this building, I was handed a pamphlet in the street which argues that only when each individual human being holds a unique set of beliefs–for example, only one person in the whole world is a French-speaking Alawite Muslim who believes the Flemings were justified in the Route des Larmes but the Poles were right to say the Saxons deliberately starved them in the potato famine and the English were justified in killing Colquhoun’s band in 1834… you get the idea… only then will the mission of Diversitarianism be truly complete and Societism will be completely destroyed.”
― Tom Anderson, Cometh the Hour...

“From the beginning of the world up to the present day, there has never been such a thing as a war of liberation… even when the invading power proclaims the ‘occupied’ lands as being inhabited with what it considers to be an extension of its own people, this is merely a cover to delude the lower classes while the ruling classes plot to gain their own advantage over the region. The ruling classes, of course, fail to realise that they are cutting their own throats in the process by ensuring that the lower classes will be able to later use this as an excuse to begin wars of their own, on their own terms…”–Pablo Sanchez, Pax Aeterna, 1845”
― Tom Anderson, Cometh the Hour...

“The attitude is summed up by a famous scene from the novel Memoir of a Bengal Lancer by Geoffrey Bampfylde, in which the young and naïve titular hero is shocked by Englishmen standing by and not acting while a Hindoo widow is hurled onto her husband’s funeral pyre in the practice of suttee.[ 52] His more cynical flinty-eyed Irish sergeant advises him that “To be sure, sor, this would raise a few eyebrows on Hampstead Heath: but you’re not on Hampstead Heath any more.”
― Tom Anderson, Cometh the Hour...

“The Mittelbunders attacked Brussels, taking advantage of the fact that the cold weather meant that many of Boulanger’s steam engines were failing to perform well. Boulanger was not a fool and tried to convert his artillery back over to conventional horsepower, but was hampered by the fact that his men had already eaten most of Brussels’ horses – and were making a good start on the cats and dogs, too.”
― Tom Anderson, Uncharted Territory

“I intend to resign my post without permission, illegally requisition numerous Company ships and men, and take them on a half-baked voyage to the other ends of the earth for a futile romantic cause. Do any of you wish to arrest me now?” The film, missing out several other historically recorded exchanges of dialogue for drama’s sake, cuts to Ulrich Münchhausen commenting “The only reason we might arrest you is if you said we could not come with you.”
― Tom Anderson, Cometh the Hour...