User:Resist much, obey little!

RESIST MUCH, OBEY LITTLE!
Walt Whitman (1819–1892). Leaves of Grass. 1900.

173. Walt Whitman’s Caution

TO The States, or any one of them, or any city of The States, Resist much, obey little; Once unquestioning obedience, once fully enslaved; Once fully enslaved, no nation, state, city, of this earth, ever afterward resumes its liberty.

Some Good Quotes
champagne for my real friends and real pain for my sham friends - Monty Brogan, Spike Lee's 25th Hour

If you're not ready to die for it, put the word "freedom" out of your vocabulary. - Malcolm X

You exist only in what you do." - Federico Fellini

The cinema is truth twenty-four times per second. - Jean-Luc Goddard

My (Unoffical) List of the Best Movies Ever Made
FOUR STARS

8 1/2 (1963) Federico Fellini's 8 1/2 / Otto e Mezzo

12 Angry Men (1957)

21 Grams (2003)

25th Hour (2002)

Adaptation (2002)

All the President's Men (1976)

American Beauty (1999)

American Graffiti: Collector's Edition (1973)

American History X (1998)

Amores Perros (2000) Love's a Bitch

Angels in America (2-Disc Series) (2003)

Apocalypse Now (1979)

The Aviator (2004)

Badlands (1973)

The Barbarian Invasions (2003) Les Invasions Barbares

Battle Royale (2001)

Blood Simple (1984)

Bonus Material: Jackie Brown (1997)

Born on the Fourth of July (1989)

Bowling for Columbine (2002)

Brazil (1985)

Breaking Away (1979)

Breathless (1960) À bout de soufflé

Brick (2005)

Bringing Up Baby (1938)

Brokeback Mountain (2005)

Casablanca (1942)

Chinatown (1974)

Citizen Kane (1941)

City of God (2002) Cidade de Deus

A Clockwork Orange (1971)

The Conversation (1974)

Cool Hand Luke (1967)

Crimes and Misdemeanors (1989)

The Deer Hunter (1978)

Elephant (2003)

The English Patient (1996)

Fargo (1996)

The French Connection (1971)

Gandhi (1982)

The Godfather (1972)

Mario Puzo's The Godfather

The Godfather, Part II (1974)

Good Night, and Good Luck (2005)

Grey's Anatomy: Season 1 (2-Disc Series) (2005)

Hustle & Flow (2005)

The Hustler (1961)

Igby Goes Down (2002)

The Insider (1999)

Jackie Brown: Collector's Series (1997)

Kill Bill: Vol. 1 (2003)

Kill Bill: Vol. 2 (2004)

King Kong (2005)

Klute (1971)

Kramer vs. Kramer (1979)

Le Samourai (1967)

Leaving Las Vegas (1995)

Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring (2001)

Lost: Season 1 (7-Disc Series) (2004)

LOTR: Fellowship of the Ring: Extended Ed. (2001)

Magnolia (1999)

The Maltese Falcon (1941)

The Manchurian Candidate (1962)

Manhattan (1979)

Marathon Man (1976)

March of the Penguins (2004)

The Emperor's Journey

Mean Streets (1973)

Metropolis (1927)

Midnight Cowboy (1969)

Million Dollar Baby (2004)

Modern Times (1936)

My Left Foot: Special Edition (1989)

Mystic River (2003)

North by Northwest (1959)

The Office: Season 1 (2005)

On the Waterfront (1954)

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975)

Ordinary People (1980)

The Piano (1993)

Platoon (1986)

The Player (1992)

Pride and Prejudice (2005)

The Professional (1994) Léon

Psycho (1960)

Pulp Fiction (1994)

Quiz Show (1994)

Raging Bull (1980)

Rain Man (1988)

Rashomon (1950)

Rear Window (1954)

Rebel Without a Cause: Special Edition (1955)

Reds (1981)

The Remains of the Day (1993)

Requiem for a Dream (2000)

Reservoir Dogs (1992)

Riding Giants (2004)

Road to Perdition (2002)

Roger & Me (1989)

Running on Empty (1988)

Schindler's List (1993)

Serpico (1973)

sex, lies, and videotape (1989)

Sideways (2004)

Sin City (2005)

Six Feet Under: Season 1 (4-Disc Series) (2001)

Six Feet Under: Season 2 (5-Disc Series) (2001)

Six Feet Under: Season 3 (5-Disc Series) (2003)

Six Feet Under: Season 4 (5-Disc Series) (2004)

Six Feet Under: Season 5 (5-Disc Series) (2005)

The Sopranos: Season 1 (4-Disc Series) (1999)

The Sopranos: Season 2 (4-Disc Series) (2000)

The Sopranos: Season 5 (4-Disc Series) (2004)

Straw Dogs (1971)

The Sweet Hereafter (1997)

Taxi Driver (1976)

Traffic: The Miniseries (2-Disc Series) (2004)

Trainspotting: Collector's Edition (1996)

Unforgiven (1992)

United 93 (2006)

The United States of Leland (2004)

Vertigo (1958)

Wallace & Gromit: Curse of the Were-Rabbit (2005)

Wallace & Gromit: Three Amazing Adventures (2001)

The Wild Bunch: Special Edition (1969)

The Wire: Season 1 (5-Disc Series) (2003)

Yeah Right! (2003)

THREE AND A HALF STARS

2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)

About Schmidt (2002)

Affliction (1998)

Almost Famous (2000)

American Splendor (2003)

Amistad (1997)

Annie Hall (1977)

As Good as It Gets (1997)

The Assassination of Richard Nixon (2004)

Awakenings (1990)

Barton Fink (1991)

Batman Begins (2005)

A Beautiful Mind (2001)

Being John Malkovich (1999)

The Believer (2001)

The Big Chill (1983)

Billy Elliot (2000)

Birth (2004)

Bloody Sunday (2002)

Blue Velvet (1986)

Bonnie and Clyde (1967)

Boogie Nights (1997)

The Bourne Supremacy (2004)

The Boxer (1997)

Braveheart (1995)

Broken Flowers (2005)

Bullitt (1968)

Capote (2005)

Catch Me If You Can (2002)

Chariots of Fire (1981)

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005)

The Cider House Rules (1999)

A Civil Action (1998)

Closer (2004)

Collateral (2004)

The Color Purple (1985)

The Constant Gardener (2005)

The Cooler (2003)

Crash (2005)

The Crying Game (1992)

Dances With Wolves: Special Edition (1990)

Dazed and Confused (1993)

The DC Video (Deluxe Edition) (2004)

Dead Man Walking (1995)

The Diary of Anne Frank (1959)

Dirty Pretty Things (2002)

Do the Right Thing (1989)

Dog Day Afternoon (1975)

Donnie Darko: Director's Cut (2001)

The Door in the Floor (2004)

Down by Law (1986)

Dr. Strangelove (1964)

Dr. Strangelove or:

How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb

Drugstore Cowboy (1989)

E.T.: Original 1982 Version (1982)

1982 Version and Bonus Features

Easy Rider (1969)

Enter the Dragon: Special Edition (1973)

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)

Fahrenheit 9/11 (2004)

Far from Heaven (2002)

Field of Dreams (1989)

Finding Nemo (Widescreen) (2003)

Finding Neverland (2004) J.M. Barrie's Neverland

Five Easy Pieces (1970)

Four Weddings and a Funeral (1994)

Frida (2002)

The Fugitive (1993)

Full Metal Jacket (1987)

Gallipoli (1981)

Gangs of New York (2002)

Gattaca (1997)

Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai (2000)

Gladiator (2000)

Glengarry Glen Ross (1992)

Good Will Hunting (1997)

GoodFellas (1990)

Gosford Park (2001)

The Graduate (1967)

The Green Mile (1999)

The Grifters (1990)

Hard Eight (1996)

Heat (1995)

Heavenly Creatures (1994)

Hero (2002) Ying Xiong

A History of Violence (2005)

Hoop Dreams (1994)

Hotel Rwanda (2005)

The Hours (2002)

House of Flying Daggers (2004) Shi mian mai fu / Ambushed from Ten Directions

House of Sand and Fog (2003)

The Hurricane (1999)

I Am Sam (2001)

The Ice Storm (1997)

In America (2002)

In Good Company (2004)

In the Bedroom (2001)

In the Heat of the Night (1967)

In the Name of the Father (1993)

Inside Man (2006)

Insomnia (2002)

Interiors (1978)

The Italian Job (2003)

Jerry Maguire (1996)

JFK: Special Edition (1991)

King Kong: Special Edition (1933)

L.A. Confidential (1997)

The Last of the Mohicans (1992)

The Last Samurai (2003)

Layer Cake (2004)

The Long Goodbye (1973)

Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003)

Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002)

Lost in Translation (2003)

LOTR: The Two Towers: Extended Ed. (2002)

Love Actually (2003)

M (1931)

Malcolm X (1992)

Man on Fire (2004)

The Manchurian Candidate (2004)

Maria Full of Grace (2004)

Match Point (2005)

Matchstick Men (2003)

Mean Creek (2004)

Mean Streets (1973)

Miller's Crossing (1990)

Minority Report (2002)

Monster (2003)

Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975)

Moonlight Mile (2002)

Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)

Network (1976)

Ocean's Eleven (2001)

Ocean's Twelve (2004) Ocean's 12

Office Space (1999)

Oldboy (2003) Oldeuboi

On Golden Pond (1981)

One False Move (1991)

The Others (2001)

Paper Moon (1973)

The Patriot (2000)

Patton (1970)

Philadelphia (1993)

Pi: Faith in Chaos (1998)

The Pianist (2002)

Pollock (2000)

Princess Mononoke (1997)

The Proposition (2005)

Ray (2004)

Rio Bravo (1959)

The Royal Tenenbaums (2001)

Rushmore (1998)

Saving Private Ryan (1998)

Scent of a Woman (1992)

Shakespeare in Love (1998)

The Shawshank Redemption: Special Edition (1994)

Shine (1996)

Signs (2002)

The Silence of the Lambs (1991)

Six Degrees of Separation (1993)

The Sixth Sense (1999)

Sling Blade (1996)

Solaris (2002)

Spartan (2004)

Spellbound (2002)

Spirited Away (2002) Sen to Chihiro no kamikakushi

The Squid and the Whale (2005)

Stand by Me (1986)

Star Wars: Episode IV: A New Hope (1977)

The Station Agent (2003)

The Sting (1973)

A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)

Syriana (2005)

The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999)

Terms of Endearment (1983)

The Thin Red Line (1998)

Thirteen (2003)

Three Days of the Condor (1975)

To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)

Tootsie (1982)

Traffic (2000)

The Untouchables (1987)

V for Vendetta (2006)

The Verdict (1982)

Walk the Line (2005)

Whale Rider (2003)

White Oleander (2002)

Winged Migration (2001) Le Peuple Migrateur

Winter Solstice (2005)

Witness (1985)

Y Tu Mama Tambien (2001) And Your Mama Too

You Can Count on Me (2000)