Cometh the Hour... Quotes

“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...

“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...

“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...

“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...

“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 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...

“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...

“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...

“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...